Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800

ISBN-13: 9780415372954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 170 str.

Vanessa Martin

Opis

This book provides an excellent background to the Anglo-Iranian relations. Focussing not only on the political and economic relationship of Britain and on issues of strategic sensitivity, it illuminates British relations with society and the state and describes the interaction between various representatives and agents of both countries. Two conferences organized by the Royal Asiatic Society, London and the Institute for Documentation and Diplomatic History, Tehran in 2001 and 2002 form the basis of the book. Experts in the field make a great contribution to our understanding of Iranian history by drawing on many documents in English and Persian that had previously not been available. Contrary to earlier works, this book corrects the view that Iran in the nineteenth century was vacuous. It clearly shows that there was a national state, which seriously defended the national interests.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. 'Persia' in the Western Imagination  3. Major General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith KCMG and Anglo-Iranian Relations in Art and Culture  4. The Clergy and the British: Perceptions of Religion and the Ulama in Early Qajar Iran  5. The British in Bushehr: The Impact of the First Heart War on the Relations with State and Society  6. Ordinary People and the Reception of British Culture in Iran, 1906-41  7. The Relationship between the British and Abd Al-Husain Mirza Farman Farma during his Governorship of Fars  7. Britain, the Iranian Military and the Rise of Reza Khan  8. Oil in Iran between the Two World Wars  9. An Assessment of the Withdrawal of British Forces from the Persian Gulf (1971) within the Framework of Disputed Islands  10. Anglo Iranian Relations over the Disputed Islands in the Persian Gulf: Constraints on Rapprochement  11. The Restoration of Diplomatic Relations with Iran December 1953  

O autorze

Vanessa Martin is Reader in Middle Eastern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Islam and Modernism: the Iranian Revolution of 1906 (1989), Creating an Islamic State (2000) and The Qajar Pact: Bargaining, Protest and the State in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2005). She is joint series editor of Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies series.