Anglo-iranian Relations Since 1800

by Martin; Vanessa

• ISBN13: 9780415372954
• ISBN10: 041537295X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Transliteration	xi
List of abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(147)
1 'Persia' in the Western imagination	8	(13)
ALI M. ANSARI
2 Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith KCMG and Anglo-Iranian relations in art and culture	21	(15)
JENNIFER M. SCARCE
3 The clergy and the British: perceptions of religion and the ulama in early Qajar Iran	36	(19)
ROBERT GLEAVE
4 The British in Bushehr: the impact of the First Herat War (1838-41) on relations with state and society	55	(12)
VANESSA MARTIN
5 Ordinary people and the reception of British culture in Iran, 1906-41	67	(13)
MORTEZA NOURAEI
6 The relationship between the British and Abd al-Husain Mirza Farman-Farma during his governorship of Fars, 1916-20	80	(19)
MANSOUREH ETTEHADIEH NEZAM MAFI
7 Britain, the Iranian military and the rise of Reza Khan	99	(29)
STEPHANIE CRONIN
8 Oil in Iran between the two world wars	128	(9)
MOHAMMAD MALEK
9 An assessment of the withdrawal of British forces from the Persian Gulf (1971) within the framework of disputed islands	137	(11)
REZA NAZARAHARI
10 Anglo-Iranian relations over the disputed islands in the Persian Gulf: constraints on rapprochement	148	(13)
HOSSEIN H. MOGHADDAM
11 The restoration of diplomatic relations with Iran, December 1953	161	(6)
DENIS WRIGHT
Index	167