From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean : the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa / Sebouh David Aslanian

• Superior document: The California world history library 17
• VerfasserIn: Aslanian, Sebouh David
• Place / Publishing House: Berkeley, Calif., London : University of California Press, 2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: The California world history library 17
• Classification: 15.76 - Vorderer und mittlerer Orient; 15.08 - Sozialgeschichte; 15.09 - Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Physical Description: XX, 363 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.
• Notes: Literaturverzeichnis S. 307 - 343. - From trade diasporas to circulation society -- Old Julfa, the great deportations, and the founding of New Julfa, 1604/1620 -- The new Julfan trade network I: the world of the Indian Ocean -- The New Julfan trade network II: the Mediterranean, Western European, and Russian Networks -- "The salt in a merchant's letter": the art of writing business correspondence, the courier system, and their role in Julfan economy and society -- Social capital, "trust" and the role of networks in Julfan trade: informal and semi-formal institutions at work -- The circulation of men and credit: the role of the commenda, the family firm and of non-circulating women in Julfan society -- From coalition to nation: the collapse and transformation of the Julfan trade network