The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran伊朗萨非王朝时期的贸易政治

内容概要

Rudolph P. Matthee is Associate Profess Of History at the University of Delaware.

书籍目录

List of platesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on transliterationList of abbreviationsMapsIntroductionl  The Iranian silk trade: from the Silk Road to the Safavids2  Procedures, logistics, and finances3  Shah 'Abbas I and the Safavid political economy: territorial expansion, anti-Ottoman diplomacy, and the politics of silk4  Government control and growing competition: the silk expo monopoly and the advent of the European maritime compaI5  The complications of privatization: from the abolition of the silk export monopoly to the peace of Zuhab, 1629—16396  Conflict and reorientation: silk to silver, 1640—16677  Renewed regulation and the rise of the Russian connection, 1660s—1690s8  Contraction and continuity, 1690—1730   ConclusionAppendixGlossaryBibliographyIndex

作者简介

Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbours and the world at large, through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade. In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource crucial to state revenue and the only commodity to span Iran's entire economic activity, was integral to aspects of late Safavid society, including its approach to commerce, export routes and, importantly, to the political and economic problems which contributed to its collapse in the early 1700s. In a challenge to traditional scholarship, the author argues that despite the introduction of a maritime, western-dominated channel, Iran's traditional land-based silk export continued to expand right up to the end of the seventeenth century. The book makes a major theoretical contribution to the debates on the social and economic history of the pre-modern world.

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