From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
Subtitle: the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa
By: Sebouh David Aslanian
Series: The California world history library -- 17
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780520266872
Subjects: Sources; Merchants; Commerce; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: From trade diasporas to circulation society; title: Old Julfa, the great deportations, and the founding of New Julfa, 1604/1620; title: The new Julfan trade network I: the world of the Indian Ocean; title: The New Julfan trade network II: the Mediterranean, Western European, and Russian Networks; title: "The salt in a merchant's letter": the art of writing business correspondence, the courier system, and their role in Julfan economy and society; title: Social capital, "trust" and the role of networks in Julfan trade: informal and semi-formal   institutions at work; title: The circulation of men and credit: the role of the commenda, the family firm and of non-circulating women in Julfan society; title: From coalition to nation: the collapse and transformation of the Julfan trade network.