Junko Takeda is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on early modern globalization, statecraft and migration. She is the author of 'Between Crown and Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean'. She is currently writing a global microhistory about Avedik, an Armenian patriarch of Constantinople imprisoned in France during the reign of Louis XIV.

‘This book is highly readable and appealing, combining early-modern Iranian history with intellectual trends of the French Enlightenment.’ Mehdi Mousavi, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Junko Takeda is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on early modern globalization, statecraft and migration. She is the author of 'Between Crown and Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean'. She is currently writing a global microhistory about Avedik, an Armenian patriarch of Constantinople imprisoned in France during the reign of Louis XIV.

‘This book is highly readable and appealing, combining early-modern Iranian history with intellectual trends of the French Enlightenment.’ Mehdi Mousavi, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Junko Takeda is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on early modern globalization, statecraft and migration. She is the author of 'Between Crown and Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean'. She is currently writing a global microhistory about Avedik, an Armenian patriarch of Constantinople imprisoned in France during the reign of Louis XIV.

‘This book is highly readable and appealing, combining early-modern Iranian history with intellectual trends of the French Enlightenment.’ Mehdi Mousavi, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies