1st Edition

War and Peace in Qajar Persia Implications Past and Present

Edited By Roxane Farmanfarmaian Copyright 2008
    256 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    256 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    1. Preface: Rewriting History from the Inside Out

    ---Roxane Farmanfarmaian and Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar

    2. Introduction: The Dream of Empire

    ---Peter W. Avery

    3. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Policy-making under Conditions of Constraint in Early Qajar Persia

    ---Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar

    4. Military Reform in Qajar Persia: A Reassessment

    ---Stephanie 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 Boundary

    ---Richard Schofield

    7. Social Networks and Border Conflicts: The First Herat War

    ---Vanessa Martin

    8. The Reassertion of Tehran’s Control over the Northern Persian Gulf Littoral in the 19th Century

    ---Lawrence Potter

    9. Security and Insecurity: Socio-politico Conditions of Iran, 1870-1924

    ---Mansureh Ettehadieh (Nezam-Mafie)

    10. Merchants without Frontiers: Trade, Travel and a Revolution in Late Qajar Iran

    ---Ali Gheissari

    11. Oil, Sovereignty and the Nuances of Qajar Concessionary Negotiation

    ---Roxane Farmanfarmaian

    12. The Naft Khaneh Question: An Oil Agreement that Never Passed the Majles

    ---Mohammad Malek

    Biography

    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.