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In the shadow of the king: Zill al-Sultān and Isfahān under the Qājārs

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ISBN	9781850434344
Author	Walcher, Heidi A.
Title	In the shadow of the king : Zill al-Sultān and Isfahān under the Qājārs / [by] Heidi A. Walcher
Publisher	London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, 2008
Physical desc.	xii, [1], 508 p., [16] p. of plates ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm.
Series	[International library of Iranian studies] [9]
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-500) and index
Contents	Introduction: The city of religion and Opium. -- Trading the Kārūn navigation rights for the Star of India. -- A blind star will not become the moon: the Zill al-Sultān’s eclipse. -- Taqī is not afraid of your unloaded canons. -- Defeating the British tobacco monopoly. -- Anti-British resistance and other trade wars. -- The Anglican gospel for Persia. -- Proselytizing the Jews. -- Disintegration and unrest. -- Rise of the light of God: from princely absolutism to tribal rule. -- Epilogue. -- List of governors of Isfahān 1752-1922.
Person as subject	Ẓill al-Sulṭān, Masʻūd ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn -- 1849-1918
Subject	Princes -- Iran -- Biography
	Iṣfahān (Iran) History
	Iṣfahān (Iran) -- Biography
	Iran -- History -- Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925
Added name(s) - Corporate	Iran Heritage Foundation

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