TY - BOOK AU - Aslanian,Sebouh David TI - From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa T2 - The California world history library SN - 9780520282179 AV - HF3770.2.Z9 J853 2011 U1 - 382.0899199 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Merchants KW - Armenia KW - History KW - Sources KW - Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) KW - Commerce N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; From trade diasporas to circulation societies -- Old Julfa, the great deportations, and the founding of New Julfa -- The new Julfan trade network I: the world of the Indian Ocean -- The New Julfan trade network II: the Mediterranean, Western European, and Russian Networks -- "The salt in a merchant's letter": business correspondence and the courier system -- The circulation of men and credit: the commenda and the family firm -- Trust, social capital, and networks : informal and semi-formal institutions at work -- The center cannot hold : the decline and collapse of the Julfan trade network ER -