Contents
List of plates / xi
List of text figures / xvii
List of maps / xviii
List of tables / xix
Preface / xxi
Part 1: The Political Framework, 1722-1979
1 Nadir Shah And The Afsharid Legacy / 3
by Peter Avery
2 The Zand Dynasty / 63
by John Perry, Associate Professor of Persian Language and Civilisation, the University of Chicago
3 Āghā Muhammad Khān and the Establishment of the Qājār Dynasty / 104
by Gavin R.G. Hambly
4 Iran During the Reigns of Fath 'Ali Shāh and Muhammad Shāh / 144
by Gavin R.G. Hambly
5 Iran Under The Later Qājārs, 1848—1922 / 174
by Nikki Keddie, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles and Mehrdad Amanat
6 The Pahlavi Autocracy: Rižā Shāh, 1921 —1941 / 213
by Gavin R.G. Hambly
7 The Pahlavī Autocracy: Muhammad Rižā Shāh, 1941-1979 / 244
by Gavin R.G. Hambly
Part 2: Foreign Relations
8 Iranian Relations With the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / 297
by Stanford Shaw, Professor of Turkish and Near Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
9 Iranian Relations with Russia and the Soviet Union, to 192I / 314
by F. Kazemzadeh, Professor of History, Yale University
10 Iranian Relations with the European Trading Companies, to 1798 / 350
by Rose Greaves, Professor of History, University of Kansas
11 Iranian Relations with Great Britain and British India, I798-1921 / 374
by Rose Greaves
12 Iranian Foreign Policy, 1921 —1979 / 426
by Am in Saikal, Lecturer in Political Science, the Australian National University, Canberra
Part 3: Economic and Social Developments
13 Land Tenure and Revenue Administration in the Nineteenth Century / 459
by A.K.S. Lambton, Emerita Professor of Persian, London University
14 The Tribes in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth century Iran / 506
by Richard Tapper, Reader in Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
15 The Traditional Iranian City in the Qājār Period / 542
by Gavin R.G. Hambly
16 European Economic Penetration, 1872-1921 / 590
by Charles Issawi, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
17 Economic Development, 1921-1979 / 608
by K.S. Maclachlan, Senior Lecturer in Geography, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
18 The Iranian Oil Industry / 639
by Ronald Ferrier, Historian to the British Petroleum Company
Part 4: Religious And Cultural Life, 1721-1979
19 Religious Forces in Eighteenth - and Nineteenth-Century Iran / 705
by Hamid Algar, Professor of Persian and Islamic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
20 Religious Forces in Twentieth-Century Iran / 732
by Hamid Algar
21 Popular Entertainment, Media and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Iran / 765
by Peter Chelkowski, Professor of Persian, New York University
22 Printing, the Press and Literature in Modern Iran / 815
by Peter Avery
23 Persian Painting Under the Zand and Qājār Dynasties / 870
by B. W. Robinson, formerly Keeper Emeritus, Victoria and Albert Museum
24 The Arts of the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries:
Architecture / 890
Ceramics / 930
Metalwork / 939
Textiles / 945
by Jennifer Scarce, Curator of Eastern Cultures, National Museums of Scotland
Genealogical tables / 959
Bibliographies / 963
Index / 1036
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