The Qajar Pact
Bargaining, Protest and the State in Nineteenth-Century Persia
Published on 24. June 2005
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-85043-763-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"'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, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
8pp bw images
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-763-5 (9781850437635)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
06/2005
1st Edition
I.B. Tauris
€36.49
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Person
Vanessa Martin is Reader in 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).