Table of Contents:
  • Background: religion, society, politics and trade
  • The people, the state and the British in Bushire and Kharg Island 1836-1850
  • Shiraz: urban protest and the balance of power in fars
  • Isfahan: popular protest, social control and the emergence of collaboration
  • Popular demonstrations by women in nineteenth century Iran
  • The Lutis, the turbulent urban poor
  • Sarbaz
  • the unruly soldiery
  • Slavery and black slaves in Iran in the nineteenth century
  • Slaves II: Haji Bashir Khan
  • love in a complicated climate.