Tribes & Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran

by Arash Khazeni

Book Overview

Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of their territory to the outside world. As the Qajar dynasty sought to integrate the peoples on its margins into the state, the British Empire made commercial inroads into the once inaccessible mountains on the frontier between Iran and Iraq. The distance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295989955
• ISBN13: 9780295989952
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher