From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New JulfaUniversity of California Press, 4 mag 2011 - 392 pagine Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world—both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires—astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities. |
Sommario
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2 Old Julfa the Great Deportations and the Founding of New Julfa | 23 |
TheWorld of the Indian Ocean | 44 |
The Mediterranean Northwestern European and Russian Networks | 66 |
Business Correspondence and the Courier System | 86 |
The Commenda and the Family Firm | 121 |
Informal and Semiformal Institutions at Work | 166 |
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Abbas Aleppo Alishan Amsterdam archives Armeni Armenian Church Armenian community Armenian merchants Asian Aslanian ASMA Assembly of Merchants Astrakhan Baghdiantz McCabe Basra busta Calcutta chapter Chinsura circulation coalition commenda agents commenda contract Comun correspondence court dated diaspora documents early modern East India Company economic eighteenth century Empire English European family firm folder folio Herzig Hovhannes Ibid important Indian Ocean Iran Iranian Isfahan Islamic Istanbul Izmir Julfa dialect Julfan Armenian Julfan commercial Julfan merchants Julfan network Julfan trade kadkhudas kalantar Khachikian letter Livorno Madras Manila Marcara Marseilles Mediterranean menian merchant communities Minas di Elias Mughal Multani Nadir Nazar nodal center Old Julfa Ottoman Ottoman Empire Persian Petros Portuguese priests residing role Safavid Santa Catharina Sceriman family Sephardic settlements seventeenth century Shah Shahriman Shahrimanian ship Shushanik silk social capital Surat trade diaspora trade network traveled Trivellato trust University Press Venice Yerevan Zanazan