War and Peace in Qajar Persia: Implications Past and Present

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Contributor list......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Prologue: The dream of empire......Page 26
Part I: War......Page 32
1 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Policy-making under conditions of constraint in early Qajar Persia......Page 34
2 Building a new army: Military reform in Qajar Iran......Page 60
3 The Turko-Persian War 1821–1823: Winning the war but losing the peace......Page 101
4 Social networks and border conflicts: The First Herat War 1838–1841......Page 123
Part II: Peace......Page 136
5 The consolidation of Iran’s frontier on the Persian Gulf in the nineteenth century......Page 138
6 Narrowing the frontier: Mid-nineteenth century efforts to delimit and map the Perso-Ottoman boundary......Page 162
7 Crime, security, and insecurity: Socio-political conditions of Iran, 1875–1924......Page 187
8 Merchants without borders: Trade, travel, and a revolution in late Qajar Iran (The memoirs of Hajj Mohammad-Taqi Jourabchi, 1906–1911)......Page 196
9 The politics of concession: Reassessing the interlinkage of Persia’s finances, British intrigue and Qajar negotiation......Page 226
Index......Page 242