The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on transliteration List of abbreviations Maps Introduction 1. The Iranian silk trade: from the Silk Road to the Safavids 2. Procedures, logistics, 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 export monopoly and the advent of the European maritime companies 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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