List of plates

List of text figures

List of maps

List of genealogical tables

List of tables

Preface: Editorial note

Introduction

Part I. The Political Framework, 1722-1979

1. Nadir Shah and the Afsharid legacy Peter Avery

2. The Zand dynasty John Perry

3. Agha Muhammad Khan and the establishment of the Qajar dynasty Gavin R. G. Hambly

4. Iran during the reigns of Fath 'Ali Shah and Muhammad Shah Gavin R. G. Hambly

5. Iran under the later Qajars, 1848-1922 Nikki Keddie and Mehrdad Amanat

6. The Pahlavi autocracy: Riza Shah, 1921-1941 Gavin R. G. Hambly

7. The Pahlavi autocracy: Muhammad Riza Shah, 1941-1979 Gavin R. G. Hambly

Part II. Foreign Relations: 8. Iranian relations with the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries Stanford Shaw

9. Iranian relations with Russia and the Soviet Union to 1921 F. Kazemzadeh

10. Iranian relations with the European Trading Companies to 1798 Rose Greaves

11. Iranian relations with Great Britain and British India, 1798-1921 Rose Greaves

12. Iranian foreign policy, 1921-1979 Amin Saikal

Part III. Economic And Social Developments: 13. Land tenure and revenue administration in the nineteenth century A. K. S. Lambton

14. The tribes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iran Richard Tapper

15. The traditional Iranian city in the Qajar period Gavin R. G. Hambly

16. European economic penetration, 1872-1921 Charles Issawi

17. Economic development, 1921-1979 K. S. MacLachlan

18. The Iranian oil industry Ronald Ferrier

Part IV.Religious And Cultural Life, 1721-1979

19. Religious forces in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Iran Hamid Algar

20. Religious forces in twentieth-century Iran Hamid Algar

21. Popular entertainment, media and social change in twentieth-century Iran Peter Chelkowski

22. Painting, the press and literature in modern Iran Peter Avery

23. Persian painting under the Zand and Qajar dynasties B. W. Robinson

24. The arts of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries: architecture

ceramics

metalwork

textiles Jennifer Scarce.