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.
Arash Khazeni teaches history at the Claremont Colleges in California and is currently Robert W. Mellon Research Fellow at the Huntington Library.
"This book is the most detailed and vivid account of tribes in nineteenth-century Iran yet to be written and sheds new light on Iranian social and cultural history."--Afshin Marashi, California State University at Sacramento
"Arash Khazeni's book fills an important gap in our understanding of tribes and center-periphery relations in the Qajar period, placing the Bakhtiyari tribes' involvement in the Constitutional Revolution within the context of broader trends in Bakhtiyari politics and history."--Kamran Scot Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin
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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.
Arash Khazeni teaches history at the Claremont Colleges in California and is currently Robert W. Mellon Research Fellow at the Huntington Library.
"This book is the most detailed and vivid account of tribes in nineteenth-century Iran yet to be written and sheds new light on Iranian social and cultural history."--Afshin Marashi, California State University at Sacramento
"Arash Khazeni's book fills an important gap in our understanding of tribes and center-periphery relations in the Qajar period, placing the Bakhtiyari tribes' involvement in the Constitutional Revolution within the context of broader trends in Bakhtiyari politics and history."--Kamran Scot Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin
Imprint | University of Washington Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Publications on the Near East |
Release date | March 2010 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | March 2010 |
Authors | Arash Khazeni |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 304 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-295-98994-5 |
Barcode | 9780295989945 |
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LSN | 0-295-98994-7 |