Notables, merchants, and shaykhs of Southern Iran and its ports
Subtitle: politics and trade of the Persian Gulf Region, AD 1729-1789
By: Thomas Ricks
Series: Conflict and trade -- 5
Publisher: Gorgias Press; Gorgias Pr Llc
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781593339579
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of maps; title: List of tables; title: Abbreviations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface; title: Introduction: Iran and its 18th century historiography; title: Chapter 1. Political and socioeconomic structures of late-Safavid Iran, Southern Iran, and the Gulf: the Safavids, Afghans, and Afshars, 1700-1745; title: Chapter 2. Economic wars and political alliances in Southern Iran and the Gulf: the period of the Afshar successors of Nader Shah, 1745-1750; title: Chapter 3. Trade wars and politics of the notables, merchants, and shaykhs in Southern Iran and the Iranian Gulf littoral: the rise of Karim Khan and the Zand family, 1750-1753; title: Chapter 4. Social alliances and political wars in Southern Iran: consolidation of Zand rule, 1753-1763; title: Chapter 5. Alliances and trade wars in the Gulf: the Zands of Southern Iran and their entry into Gulf politics, 1763-1765; title: Conclusion; title: Appendices; title: Maps; title: Glossary: the following descriptions of offices and definitions of terms related to 18th-century iran; title: Bibliography.