War and Peace in Qajar Persia Implications Past and Present [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction Roxane Farmanfarmaian  Prologue: The Dream of Empire Peter W. Avery  Part 1: War  1. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Policy-Making under Conditions of Constraint in Early Qajar Persia Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar  2. Building a New Army: Military Reform in Qajar Iran Stephanie Cronin  3. The Turko-Persian War of 1821-1823: Winning the War but Losing the Peace Graham Williamson  4. Social Networks and Border Conflicts: The First Herat War 1838-1841 Vanessa Martin  Part 2: Peace  5. The Consolidation of Irans Frontier on the Persian Gulf in the 19th Century Lawrence G. Potter  6. Narrowing the Frontier: Mid-19th Century Efforts to Delimit and Map the Perso-Ottoman Border Richard Schofield  7. Crime, Security and Insecurity: Socio-Political Conditions of Iran, 1870-1924 Mansureh Ettehadieh (Nezam-Mafie)  8. Merchants without Borders: Trade, Travel and a Revolution in Late Qajar Iran (The Memories of Hajj Mohammad-Taqi Jourabchi, 1907-1911) Ali Gheissari  9. The Politics of Concession: Reassuring the Interlinkage of Persias Finances, British Intrigue and Qajar Negotiation Roxane Farmanfarmaian

Roxane Farmanfarmaianis completing her PhD at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge, where she served as editolCØ