Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-275) and index.
Contents
The Iranian silk trade : from the Silk Road to the Safavids -- Procedures, logistics, and finances -- Shah 'Abbas I and the Safavid political economy : territorial expansion, anti-Ottoman diplomacy, and the politics of silk -- Government control and growing competition : the silk export monopoly and the advent of the European maritime companies -- The complications of privatization : from the abolition of the silk export monopoly to the peace of Zuhab, 1629-1639 -- Conflict and reorientation : silk to silver, 1640-1667 -- Renewed regulation and the rise of the Russian connection, 1660s-1690s -- Contraction and continuity, 1690-1730.
