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War and peace in Qajar Persia : implications past and present /

With new and existing evidence being reconsidered, this edited collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to discussing the Qajar system within the context of the wars that engulfed it and the periods of peace that ensued.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Farmanfarmaian, Roxane, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Colección:History and society in the Islamic world.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Roxane Farmanfarmaian
  • Prologue : the dream of empire / Peter W. Avery
  • War
  • Between Scylla and Charybdis : policy-making under constraint in early Qajar Persia / Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
  • Building a new army : military reform in Qajar Iran / Stephanie Cronin
  • The Turko-Persian War of 1821-1823 : winning the war but losing the peace / Graham Williamson
  • Social networks and border conflicts : the first Herat War 1838-1841 / Vanessa Martin
  • Peace
  • The consolidation of Iran's frontier on the Persian Gulf in the nineteenth century / Lawrence G. Potter
  • Narrowing the frontier : mid-nineteenth century efforts to delimit and map the Perso-Ottoman border / Richard Schofield
  • Crime, security, and insecurity : socio-political conditions of Iran, 1875-1924 / Mansoureh Ettehadieh (Nezam-Mafie)
  • Merchants without borders : trade, travel and revolution in late Qajar Iran (the memoirs of Hajj Mohammad-Taqi Jourabchi, 1907-1911) / Ali Gheissari
  • The politics of concession : reassessing the interlinkage of Persia's finances, British intrigue and Qajar negoation / Roxane Farmanfarmaian.