In the shadow of the king
Subtitle: Zill al-Sultān and Isfahān under the Qājārs
By: Heidi A. Walcher.
Contributors: Iran Heritage Foundation.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781850434344
Subjects: Ẓill al-Sulṭān, Masʻūd ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn, -- 1849-1918.; Princes -- Iran -- Biography.; Iṣfahān (Iran) -- History.; Iran -- History -- Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.; Iṣfahān (Iran) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-500) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: The city of religion and Opium; value: Trading the Kārūn navigation rights for the Star of India; value: A blind star will not become the moon: the Zill al-Sultān's eclipse; value: Taqī is not afraid of your unloaded canons; value: Defeating the British tobacco monopoly; value: Anti-British resistance and other trade wars; value: The Anglican gospel for Persia; value: Proselytizing the Jews; value: Disintegration and unrest; value: Rise of the light of God: from princely absolutism to tribal rule; value: Epilogue; value: List of governors of Isfahān 1752-1922.