{"product_id":"the-politics-of-trade-in-safavid-iran-silk-for-silver-1600-1730-hardback-9780521641319","title":"The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran; Silk for Silver, 1600–1730 (Hardback) 9780521641319","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSilk for Silver, 1600–1730\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book considers the economic, social and political importance of the silk trade in Safavid Iran.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRudolph P. Matthee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521641319, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 December 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 7 b\/w illus.  5 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.571 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a nuanced and well-argued analysis of the complex and changing relationship between the Safavid state and trade.' Studia Orientalia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eUsing a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbours and the world at large, through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade. In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource crucial to state revenue and the only commodity to span Iran's entire economic activity, was integral to aspects of late Safavid society, including its approach to commerce, export routes and, importantly, to the political and economic problems which contributed to its collapse in the early 1700s. In a challenge to traditional scholarship, the author argues that despite the introduction of a maritime, western-dominated channel, Iran's traditional land-based silk export continued to expand right up to the end of the seventeenth century. The book makes a major theoretical contribution to the debates on the social and economic history of the pre-modern world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes on transliteration\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Maps\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Iranian silk trade: from the Silk Road to the Safavids\u003cbr\u003e 2. Procedures, logistics, finances\u003cbr\u003e 3. Shah 'Abbas I and the Safavid political economy: territorial expansion, anti-Ottoman diplomacy, and the politics of silk\u003cbr\u003e 4. Government control and growing competition: the silk export monopoly and the advent of the European maritime companies\u003cbr\u003e 5. The complications of privatization: from the abolition of the silk export monopoly to the peace of Zuhab, 1629–1639\u003cbr\u003e 6. Conflict and reorientation: silk to silver, 1640–1667\u003cbr\u003e 7. Renewed regulation and the rise of the Russian connection, 1660s–1690s\u003cbr\u003e 8. Contraction and continuity, 1690–1730\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129351983384,"sku":"9780521641319","price":88.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521641319i.jpg?v=1691666700","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-politics-of-trade-in-safavid-iran-silk-for-silver-1600-1730-hardback-9780521641319","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}