
| Rudolph P. Matthee is Associate Profess Of History at the University of Delaware. |
| List of plates Preface Acknowledgments Note on transliteration List of abbreviations Maps Introduction l The Iranian silk trade: from the Silk Road to the Safavids 2 Procedures, logistics, and finances 3 Shah 'Abbas I and the Safavid political economy: territorial expansion, anti-Ottoman diplomacy, and the politics of silk 4 Government control and growing competition: the silk expo monopoly and the advent of the European maritime compaI 5 The complications of privatization: from the abolition of the silk export monopoly to the peace of Zuhab, 1629—1639 6 Conflict and reorientation: silk to silver, 1640—1667 7 Renewed regulation and the rise of the Russian connection, 1660s—1690s 8 Contraction and continuity, 1690—1730 Conclusion Appendix Glossary Bibliography Index |
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