Three Camels to Smyrna
Times of War and Peace in Turkey, Persia, India, Afghanistan & Nepal 1907-1986 - The Story of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Company
Antony Wynn
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Description
This Splendid book is a reminder of the dynamism of the merchnats who turned the OCM into a global company by selling carpets if their own manufacture in the are from Algeria to Tibet and China to the rest of the world. Using carpets as a connecting thread, Antony Wynn also shows how long before the word 'globalism' was invented unrelated political and economic events in America and Europe immediately touched on the lives of those in the carpet-making world of Asia ,and just as much in the opposite direction.
About the Author
Antony Wynn read Persian and Turkish at Oxford.his first job was given to him by Bryan Huffner who took him in 1972 to be the OCM buyer in Hamadan Iran.He is the author of Persia in the Great game : Sir Percy Sykes: Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy, and was ocassional a columnist for Cornucopia, a magazine devoted to Turkish history and culture, He was also editor of the Journal of the Iran Society.
"The author weaves the company's history into the political background with skill and his feel for local people and realities informs every page of this admirable book." -Asian Affairs
