A History of Persia: From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Year 1858
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
A History of Persia: From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Year 1858
By (Author) Robert Grant Watson
Introduction by Ali M. Ansari
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
I.B. Tauris
9th February 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
955.04
Physical Properties
Hardback
496
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
Robert Grant Watson was a British diplomat attached to the British Legation in Persia. His A History of Persia, published in 1866, is a detailed account of events in the country in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the foundations of the Qajar dynasty were being laid. Watson uses both European and Persian sources to detail the circumstances of the Qajar rise to rule and recount the tumultuous events of Persia affairs both foreign and domestic between 1800 and 1860. This was one of the first books to be written on this specific period and details Persias entanglements with European powers, including the war between Persia and Russia, her internal ructions, and the complex dealings of the various treaties and their upsets. The hard-to-find volume is now re-published with a new introduction by the leading scholar of Iranian History, Ali Ansari, who is Professor at St Andrews University in the U.K.
Author Bio
Robert Grant Watson was a British diplomat attached to the British Legation in Persia Ali Ansari is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K
