07 August 2008 Armenian Merchant Information Networks, 1600s-1800s ''The latest issue of the Journal of World History (vol. 19, no. 2) leads off with an article that somehow caught my fancy. Whitman College professor Sebouh Aslanian writes on "The Salt in a Merchant's Letter": The Culture of Julfan Correspondence in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Project MUSE subscription required). Here's a bit of the introduction (omitting footnotes and page numbers).'' snipped from http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2008/08/armenian-merchant-information-networks.html --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar