Iran at War

Maziar Behrooz is Associate Professor of History at San Francisco State University, USA. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on the 19th and 20th-century history of Iran. His first book, Rebels with a Cause: the Failure of the Left in Iran (1999), has been translated into Persian and Turkish. His second book, Perspectives on the History of Rebels with a Cause in Iran (2006), is a translation of a collection of articles and interviews on the left movement in Iran, published in Tehran. To find out more please visit: https://faculty.sfsu.edu/~mroozbeh

Preface
Introduction

1. Qajar Reunification
The Eunuch King and reunification of Iran
Aqa Muhammad Shah
Defeat of the Zand
Conquest of the Caucasus

2. Iran: State and Society in the Early Nineteenth Century
Fath Ali Shah Qavanllu-Qajar
Early Qajar state
Social classes and land tenure
Ulama–state relations
Early nineteenth-century society
The Qajar military

3. Diplomacy and War: The First Russo-Iranian War, 1804–1813
Prelude to war, 1801–1803
Abbas Mirza Qavanllu-Qajar
Fall of Ganjeh, 1804
First siege of Iravan, summer 1804
The Battle of Qarabagh and the siege of Ganjeh and Badkubeh, 1805
Diplomacy and intrigue
Battles of 1806
The Peaceful 1807
The Gardane mission, 1807–1809
Second siege of Iravan and the Battle of Nakhjavan, October–December 1808
The Jones Brydges mission, 1809–1810

4. Interwar Years and the Second Russo-Iranian War
The Interwar years
Prelude to war
Russian policy toward the southeastern Caucasus
Council of Sultanieh
The Battlefield
Causes of the Second Russo-Iranian War
The aftermath

Conclusion: Seven Points

Chronology
Appendix Biographies
Notes
Bibliography