6. The Circulation of Men and Credit:The Commenda and the Family Firm

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface xv
6. Note on Transliteration xix
7. 1. From Trade Diasporas to Circulation Societies 1
8. 2. Old Julfa, the Great Deportations, and the Founding of New Julfa 23
9. 3. The Julfan Trade Network I: The World of the Indian Ocean 44
10. 4. The Julfan Trade Network II: The Mediterranean, Northwestern European, and Russian Networks 66
11. 5. “The salt in a merchant’s letter”: Business Correspondence and the Courier System 86
12. 6. The Circulation of Men and Credit:The Commenda and the Family Firm 121
13. 7. Trust, Social Capital, and Networks: Informal and Semiformal Institutions at Work 166
14. 8. The Center Cannot Hold: The Decline and Collapse of the Julfan Trade Network215 202
15. 9. Conclusion: Comparative Thoughts on Julfan Armenians, Multani Indians, and Sephardic Jews 215
16. Notes 235
17. Bibliography 307
18. Index 345