The Qajar Pact
Subtitle: bargaining, protest and the state in nineteenth-century Persia
By: Vanessa Martin.
Series: International library of Iranian studies ;; v. 4
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Civil society -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.; Social structure -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.; Iran -- History -- Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.; Iran -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Iran -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-209) and index.