From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean :  The global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa / 
Sebouh David Aslanian. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  2011. 
 - xx, 363 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
 - The California world history library  17 .
 - The California world history library  17 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-343) and index. 
<br/><br/>From trade diasporas to circulation society ; Old Julfa, the great deportations, and the founding of New Julfa, 1604/1620 ;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": the art of writing business correspondence, the courier system, and their role in Julfan economy and society ; Social capital, "trust" and the role of networks in Julfan trade: informal and semi-formal institutions at work ; The circulation of men and credit: the role of the commenda, the family firm and of non-circulating women in Julfan society ; From coalition to nation: the collapse and transformation of the Julfan trade network. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520266872 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Merchants--History--Armenia--Sources.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Julfa (Isfahan, Iran)--Commerce--History--Sources.