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Article: The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530-1750)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530-1750). By INA BAGHDIANTZ McCABE. University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1999. Pp. xii + 414. $44.95.
It has long been known that Armenians were the most successful of all merchants engaged in Safavid Iran's long-distance trade. Yet until recently, all scholarly writings about their activities other than the odd article were either in Armenian or Russian. Change has been sudden and dramatic: Iranian Armenians have become fashionable of late. McCabe's study is one of a number on Iranian Armenians that have recently ...