| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Publications on the Near East
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Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On the periphery of nineteenth-century Iran -- The city of Isfahan and its hinterland -- A road through the mountains -- In the fields of oil -- The Bakhtiyari tribes in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. |
| Summary |
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 lands 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. --From publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bakhtiari (Iranian people) -- Government relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Bakhtiari (Iranian people) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Bakhtiari (Iranian people) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Tribes -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.
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Tribes. |
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Iran. |
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Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.
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Imperialism -- Social aspects. |
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Imperialism. |
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Land settlement -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.
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Land settlement. |
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Zagros Mountains Region (Iran and Iraq) -- History -- 19th century.
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Iṛfahān Region (Iran) -- History -- 19th century.
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Iran -- History -- Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.
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Iran -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Politics and government. |
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Iran -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1794-1925. |
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1794 - 1925 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Tribes and empire on the margins of nineteenth-century Iran |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Khazeni, Arash. Tribes & empire on the margins of nineteenth-century Iran. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009033962 |
| ISBN |
9780295800752 (e-book) |
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0295800755 (e-book) |
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9780295989945 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0295989947 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780295989952 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0295989955 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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