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Westview Press, 1999. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780813336428
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For God, Mammon, and Country: A Nineteenth Century Persian Merchant: Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin Al-Zarb Hardcover - 1999
by Shireen Mahdavi
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- Title For God, Mammon, and Country: A Nineteenth Century Persian Merchant: Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin Al-Zarb
- Author Shireen Mahdavi
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Date July 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780813336428 / 0813336422
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99027937
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black cloth in a crisp dw; black & white plates and illustrations; pp. 286. Gift inscription by author. Subtitled: 'A Nineteenth Century Persian Merchant: Haj Muhammad Hassan Abmin Al-zarb (1834-1898)'
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Westview Press, 1999-09-02. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Autograped with short inscription. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping. -3aa-
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For God, Mammon, And Country: A Nineteenth Century Persian Merchant: Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin Al-zarb (1834-1898)
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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999. This scholarly text is the first major account of the life and times of a merchant in nineteenth-century Iran or in the Middle East. Haj Muhammad Amin al-Zarb (1834-1898) rose from humble beginnings to become one of Irans wealthiest and most prominent merchants. He built up his wealth as a money changer, a trader in textiles, precious stones, opium, carpets, agricultural products, and staple foodstuffs amongst other goods, and judicious transactions in land. Adept at cultivating powerful connections, he became the principal supplier of luxury goods to the Shah, his court, and members of the ruling elite; served as private banker to the Shah, his prime minister, and influential bureaucrats; and became Master of the Mint. He had agents in all the main towns of Persia and Europe with correspondents in Asia and America.Amin al-Zarb was also an entrepreneur, industrialist, and innovator. Determined to bring to Iran the advances he had witnessed in Europe, he…
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