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In this fascinating look at the beginnings of the global Armenian diaspora, Dr. Sebouh Aslanian examines the historical events that dispersed Armenians from their original homeland in the early modern period, giving rise to culturally and commercially vibrant diaspora communities across Europe and Asia.
Sebouh David Aslanian is the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History and Associate Professor in the Department of History at UCLA. Aslanian is the author of From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011) which was the recipient of the PEN Center’s Exceptional UC Press First Book Award and winner of the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award, Middle East Studies Association (MESA), 2011.
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