The Cambridge History of Iran

Table of Contents

List of plates
List of text figures
List of maps
List of genealogical tables
List of tables
Preface: Editorial note
Introduction
Part I. The Political Framework, 1722–1979
1. Nadir Shah and the Afsharid legacy Peter Avery
2. The Zand dynasty John Perry
3. Agha Muhammad Khan and the establishment of the Qajar dynasty Gavin R. G. Hambly
4. Iran during the reigns of Fath 'Ali Shah and Muhammad Shah Gavin R. G. Hambly
5. Iran under the later Qajars, 1848–1922 Nikki Keddie and Mehrdad Amanat
6. The Pahlavi autocracy: Riza Shah, 1921–1941 Gavin R. G. Hambly
7. The Pahlavi autocracy: Muhammad Riza Shah, 1941–1979 Gavin R. G. Hambly
Part II. Foreign Relations:
8. Iranian relations with the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries Stanford Shaw
9. Iranian relations with Russia and the Soviet Union to 1921 F. Kazemzadeh
10. Iranian relations with the European Trading Companies to 1798 Rose Greaves
11. Iranian relations with Great Britain and British India, 1798–1921 Rose Greaves
12. Iranian foreign policy, 1921–1979 Amin Saikal
Part III. Economic And Social Developments:
13. Land tenure and revenue administration in the nineteenth century A. K. S. Lambton
14. The tribes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iran Richard Tapper
15. The traditional Iranian city in the Qajar period Gavin R. G. Hambly
16. European economic penetration, 1872–1921 Charles Issawi
17. Economic development, 1921–1979 K. S. MacLachlan
18. The Iranian oil industry Ronald Ferrier
Part IV.Religious And Cultural Life, 1721–1979
19. Religious forces in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Iran Hamid Algar
20. Religious forces in twentieth-century Iran Hamid Algar
21. Popular entertainment, media and social change in twentieth-century Iran Peter Chelkowski
22. Painting, the press and literature in modern Iran Peter Avery
23. Persian painting under the Zand and Qajar dynasties B. W. Robinson
24. The arts of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries: architecture
ceramics
metalwork
textiles Jennifer Scarce.

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