Tribes And Empire On The Margins Of Nineteenth Century Iran
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Tribes And Empire On The Margins Of Nineteenth Century Iran
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Author : Arash Khazeni
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Tribes And Empire On The Margins Of Nineteenth Century Iran written by Arash Khazeni and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with History categories.
Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of their territory to the outside world. As the Qajar dynasty sought to integrate the peoples on its margins into the state, the British Empire made commercial inroads into the once inaccessible mountains on the frontier between Iran and Iraq. The distance between the state and the tribes was narrowed through imperial projects that included the building of a road through the mountains, the gathering of geographical and ethnographic information, and the exploration for oil, which culminated during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. These modern projects assimilated autonomous pastoral nomadic tribes on the peripheries of Qajar Iran into a wider imperial territory and the world economy. Tribal subjects did not remain passive amidst these changes in environment and society, however, and projects of empire in the hinterlands of Iran were always mediated through encounters, accommodation, and engagement with the tribes. In contrast to the range of literature on the urban classes and political center in Qajar Iran, Arash Khazeni adopts a view from the Bakhtiyari tents on the periphery. Drawing upon Persian chronicles, tribal histories, and archival sources from London, Tehran, and Isfahan, this book opens new ground by approaching nineteenth-century Iran from its edge and placing the tribal periphery at the heart of a tale about empire and assimilation in the modern Middle East.
Sky Blue Stone
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Author : Arash Khazeni
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-05-10
Sky Blue Stone written by Arash Khazeni and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-10 with History categories.
This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise--a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth--and its discovery and export as a global commodity. In the material culture and imperial regalia of early modern Islamic tributary empires moving from the steppe to the sown, turquoise was a sacred stone and a potent symbol of power projected in vivid color displays. From the empires of Islamic Eurasia, the turquoise trade reached Europe, where the stone was collected as an exotic object from the East. The Eurasian trade lasted into the nineteenth century, when the oldest mines in Iran collapsed and lost Aztec mines in the Americas reopened, unearthing more accessible sources of the stone to rival the Persian blue. Sky Blue Stone recounts the origins, trade, and circulation of a natural object in the context of the history of Islamic Eurasia and global encounters between empire and nature.
A History Of Persia From The Beginning Of The Nineteenth Century To The Year 1858 With A Review Of The Principal Events That Led To The Establishment Of The Kajar Dynasty
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Author : Robert Grant Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
A History Of Persia From The Beginning Of The Nineteenth Century To The Year 1858 With A Review Of The Principal Events That Led To The Establishment Of The Kajar Dynasty written by Robert Grant Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Iran categories.
Khans And Shahs
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Author : Gene Ralph Garthwaite
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Khans And Shahs written by Gene Ralph Garthwaite and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Bakhtiari (Iranian people) categories.
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter I A historical and theoretical survey -- Chapter II The Bakhtiyari and nomadism -- Chapter III The khans and the tribal structure -- Chapter IV The Bakhtiyari and the state through the eighteenth century -- Chapter V The Bakhtiyari and the nineteenth century -- Chapter VI The post-1882 Bakhtiyari Supplement "Kitabchah" (translation) Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Discovery Of Iran
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Author : Ali Mirsepassi
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-23
The Discovery Of Iran written by Ali Mirsepassi and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-23 with History categories.
The Discovery of Iran examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, Donya. In his quest to imagine a future for Iran open to the scientific riches of the modern world and the historical diversity of its own people, Arani combined Marxist materialism and a cosmopolitan ethics of progress. He sought to reconcile Iran to its post-Islamic past, rejected by Persian purists and romanticized by their traditionalist counterparts, while orienting its present toward the modern West in all its complex and conflicting facets. As Ali Mirsepassi shows, Arani's cosmopolitanism complicates the conventional wisdom that racial exclusivism was an insoluble feature of twentieth-century Iranian nationalism. In cultural spaces like Donya, Arani and his contemporaries engaged vibrant debates about national identity, history, and Iran's place in the modern world. In exploring Arani's short but remarkable life and writings, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the image of Interwar Iran as dominated by the Pahlavi state to uncover fertile intellectual spaces in which civic nationalism flourished.
British Imperialism In Qajar Iran
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Author : H. Lyman Stebbins
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-18
British Imperialism In Qajar Iran written by H. Lyman Stebbins and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-18 with Political Science categories.
In 1888, there were just four British consulates in the country; by 1921 there were twenty-three. H. Lyman Stebbins investigates the development and consequences of British imperialism in Iran in a time of international rivalry, revolution and world war. While previous narratives of Anglo-Iranian relations have focused on the highest diplomatic circles in Tehran, London, Calcutta and St. Petersburg, this book argues that British consuls and political agents made the vast southern borderlands of Iran the real centre of British power and influence during this period. Based on British consular archives from Bushihr, Shiraz, Sistan and Muhammarah, this book reveals that Britain, India and Iran were linked together by discourses of colonial knowledge and patterns of political, military and economic control. It also contextualizes the emergence of Iranian nationalism as well as the failure and collapse of the Qajar state during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the First World War.
Making And Remaking Empire In Early Qajar Iran
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Author : Assef Ashraf
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02
Making And Remaking Empire In Early Qajar Iran written by Assef Ashraf and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02 with History categories.
Uses political practices and a socially-oriented approach to explain imperial formation under the Qajars in early nineteenth-century Iran.
Kirman And The Qajar Empire
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Author : James M Gustafson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-16
Kirman And The Qajar Empire written by James M Gustafson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with History categories.
Despite its apparently peripheral location in the Qajar Empire, Kirman was frequently found at the centre of developments reshaping Iran in the 19th century. Over the Qajar period the region saw significant changes, as competition between Kirmani families rapidly developed commercial cotton and opium production and a world renowned carpet weaving industry, as well as giving strength to radical modernist and nationalist agitation in the years leading up to the 1906 Constitutional Revolution. Kirman and the Qajar Empire explores how these Kirmani local elites mediated political, economic, and social change in their community during the significant transitional period in Iran’s history, from the rise of the Qajar Empire through to World War I. It departs from the prevailing centre-periphery models of economic integration and Qajar provincial history, engaging with key questions over how Iranians participated in reshaping their communities in the context of imperialism and growing transnational connections. With rarely utilized local historical and geographical writings, as well as a range of narrative and archival sources, this book provides new insight into the impact of household factionalism and estate building over four generations in the Kirman region. As well as offering the first academic monograph on modern Kirman, it is also an important case study in local dimensions of modernity. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Iranian studies and Iranian History, as well as general Middle Eastern studies.
Taken For Wonder
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Author : Naghmeh Sohrabi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-17
Taken For Wonder written by Naghmeh Sohrabi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taken for Wonder focuses on nineteenth-century travelogues authored by Iranians in Europe and argues for a methodological shift in the way scholars interpret travel writing.
Iran And Russian Imperialism
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Author : Moritz Deutschmann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
Iran And Russian Imperialism written by Moritz Deutschmann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with History categories.
Rather than a centralized state, Iran in the nineteenth century was a delicate balance between tribal groups, urban merchant communities, religious elites, and an autocratic monarchy. While Russia gained an increasingly dominant political role in Iran over the course of this century, Russian influence was often challenged by banditry on the roads, riots in the cities, and the seeming arbitrariness of the Shah. Iran and Russian Imperialism develops a comprehensive picture of Russia’s historical entanglements with one of its most important neighbours in Asia. It recounts how the Russian Empire strived to gain political influence at the Persian court, promote Russian trade, and secure the enormous southern borders of the empire. Using hitherto often neglected documents from archives in Russia and Georgia and reading them against the grain, this book reveals the complex reactions of different groups in Iranian society to Russian imperialism. As it turns out, the Iranians were, in the words of the Russian orientalist Konstantin Smirnov, "ideal anarchists," whose resistance to imperial domination, as well as to centralized state institutions more generally, impacted developments in the region in the century to come. Iran’s troubled relationship with the wider world continues to be a topic of considerable interest to historians, yet little focus has been given to Russia’s historical connections to Iran. This book thus represents a valuable contribution to Iranian and Russian History, as well as International Relations.