The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521641319)

This book considers the economic, social and political importance of the silk trade in Safavid Iran. It focuses on four aspects of this trade: the role of silk in Iranian commercial policy, the interaction between agents of the state and foreign merchants, the routes along which silk was transported and, critically, the economic and social difficulties that contributed to the collapse of the regime in the 1720s. This represents a major contribution to the current debates on the social and economic history of the premodern world.

Author: Rudolph P. Matthee
ISBN-10: 0521641314
ISBN-13: 9780521641319
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/09/1999
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2000 pg. 762