The Qajar Pact: Bargaining, Protest and the State in Nineteenth-Century Persia

by Vanessa Martin

Overview

The Qajar Pact explores new perspectives on the nineteenth-century Iranian state and society, and is the first broad study of lower social groups in this period. Vanessa Martin argues that Qajar government was certainly despotic, but was also founded on a consensus based on the Islamic principles of consultation and negotiation. The author focuses on the role of the non-elite groups in urban society up to the years before the Constitutional Revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788311151
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/15/2018
Series:	International Library of Iranian Studies
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Vanessa Martin is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of 'Creating an Islamic State' and 'Islam and Modernism' (both I.B.Tauris).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Background: Religion, Society, Politics and Trade
• The People, the State and the British in Bushire and Kharg Island 1836-1850
• Shiraz: Urban Protest and the Balance of Power in Fars
• Isfahan: Popular Protest, Social Control and the Emergence of Collaboration
• Popular Demonstrations by Women in 19th Century Iran
• The Lutis, the Turbulent Urban Poor
• Sarbaz - the Unruly Soldiery
• Slavery and Black Slaves in Iran in the Nineteenth Century
• Slaves II: Hajji Bashir Khan - Love in a Complicated Climate
• Conclusion
• Glossary, Abbreviations, Transliteration
• Bibliography
• Index

Editorial Reviews

"An interesting book that is the first to examine history from the bottom up for the Qajar period in Iranian history."—Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware

"A very good book."—Nikki Keddie, University of California, Los Angeles

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