Introduction Roxane Farmanfarmaian Prologue: The Dream of Empire Peter W. Avery
Part1: War
1. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Policy-Making under Conditions of Constraint in Early Qajar Persia Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
2. Building a New Army: Military Reform in Qajar Iran Stephanie Cronin
3. The Turko-Persian War of 1821-1823: Winning the War but Losing the Peace Graham Williamson
4. Social Networks and Border Conflicts: The First Herat War 1838-1841 Vanessa Martin
Part2: Peace
5. The Consolidation of Iran’s Frontier on the Persian Gulf in the 19th Century Lawrence G. Potter
6. Narrowing the Frontier: Mid-19th Century Efforts to Delimit and Map the Perso-Ottoman Border Richard Schofield
7. Crime, Security and Insecurity: Socio-Political Conditions of Iran, 1870-1924 Mansureh Ettehadieh (Nezam-Mafie)
8. Merchants without Borders: Trade, Travel and a Revolution in Late Qajar Iran (The Memories of Hajj Mohammad-Taqi Jourabchi, 1907-1911) Ali Gheissari
9. The Politics of Concession: Reassuring the Interlinkage of Persia’s Finances, British Intrigue and Qajar Negotiation Roxane Farmanfarmaian