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Summary
Summary
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. It throws new light on the decision-making processes, the restraints on action, and the political exigencies at play during the Qajar years.
Author Notes
Roxane Farmanfarmaian is completing her PhD at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge, where she served as editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs for three years. During the revolution in Iran she founded The Iranian, an independent weekly newsmagazine. She reported on Iranian affairs from Moscow and has been a contributing writer to The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times of London. She has guest lectured at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, at Madingly Hall at Cambridge University and has consulted on Iran and Iraq for the British Military.
Table of Contents
| 1 Preface: Rewriting History from the Inside OutRoxane Farmanfarmaian and Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar |
| 2 Introduction: The Dream of EmpirePeter W. Avery |
| 3 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Policy-Making under Conditions of Constraint in Early Qajar PersiaManoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar |
| 4 Military Reform in Qajar Persia: A ReassessmentStephanie Cronin |
| 5 The Turko-Persian War of 1821-23: 'Winning the War but Losing the Peace'Graham Williamson |
| 6 Narrowing the Frontier: 19th Century Efforts to Delimit, Map and Demarcate the Perso-Ottoman BoundaryRichard Schofield |
| 7 Social Networks and Border Conflicts: The First Herat WarVanessa Martin |
| 8 The Reassertion of Tehran's Control over the Northern Persian Gulf Littoral in the 19th CenturyLawrence Potter |
| 9 Security and Insecurity: Socio-Politico Conditions of Iran, 1870-1924Mansureh Ettehadieh and Nezam-Mafie |
| 10 Merchants without Frontiers: Trade, Travel and a Revolution in LateQajar Iran and Ali Gheissari |
| 11 Oil, Sovereignty and the Nuances of Qajar Concessionary NegotiationRoxane Farmanfarmaian |
| 12 The Naft Khaneh Question: An Oil Agreement that Never Passed the MajlesMohammad Malek |
