Contributor
Avery, Peter, 1923-2008, editor.
ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Description1 online resource (xxiii, 1072 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Note:PART 1: THE POLITICAL FRAMEWORK, 1722-1979: Nadir Shah and the Afsharid legacy / Peter Avery -- The Zand Dynasty / John Perry -- Agha Muhammad Khan and the establishment of the Qajar Dynasty / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- Iran during the reigns of Fath Ali Shah and Muhammad Shah / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- Iran under the later Qajars, 1848-1922 / Nikki Keddie -- The Pahlavi autocracy: Riza Shah, 1911-1941 / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- The Pahlavi autocracy: Muhammad Riza Shah, 1941-1979 / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- PART 2: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Iran relations with the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Stanford Shaw -- Iranian relations with Russia and the Soviet Union, to 1921 / F. Kazemzadeh -- Iranian relations with the European trading companies, to 1798 / Rose Greaves -- Iranian relations with Great Britain and British India, 1798-1921 / Rose Greaves -- Iranian foreign policy, 1921-1979 / Amin Saikal -- PART 3: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS: Land tenure and revenue administration in the Nineteenth Century / A.K.S. Lambton -- The tribes in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Iran / Richard Tapper -- The traditional Iranian city in the Qajar Period / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- European economic penetration, 1872-1921 / Charles Issawi -- Economic development, 1921-1979 / K.S. Maclachlan -- The Iran oil industry / Ronald Ferrier -- PART 4: RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL LIFE, 1721-1979: Religious forces in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Iran / Hamid Algar -- Religious forces in Twentieth-Century Iran / Hamid Algar -- Popular entertainment, media and social change in Twentieth-Century Iran / Peter Chelkowski -- Painting, the press, and literature in modern Iran / Peter Avery -- Persian painting under the Zand and Qajar Dynasties / B.W. Robinson -- The arts of the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries: architecture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles / Jennifer Scarce.
Note:This final volume of The Cambridge History of Iran covers the period from 1722 to 1979. Part I sets out the political framework. Beginning in the reign of Nadir Shah, it traces the establishment of the Qajar dynasty and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi autocracy. Part II discusses relations with the Ottoman Empire, Russia, European countries, Britain and British India. Part III covers economic and social developments, including systems of land tenure and revenue administration, the tribes, the traditional Iranian city, European economic penetration and the impact of the oil industry. In Part IV religious and cultural life is examined. There are chapters on religious change and Iranian arts and crafts - including architecture, ceramics, painting, metalwork and textiles, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries - and popular entertainment, literature, and the press in modern Iran. The contributors to this volume represent the most informed and up-to-date international scholarship on the region. Together they have provided a unique survey of the modern period in Iranian history, leading up to the formation of the Islamic Republic.
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