Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-g8jcs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T08:59:45.227Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Economic History of Iran, 1800–1914, and Its Political Impact an Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Nikki R. Keddie
Nikki R. Keddie*
Affiliation:
The University of California, Los Angeles
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The economic history of Iran is a subject that has barely begun to receive the attention it deserves. Articles and parts of books on particular aspects of the subject appeared as early as the nineteenth century, but it is only since World War II that there have been extensive and serious studies in English, and these are still few and far between. Prof. Lambton's book Landlord and Peasant in Persia deserves to be singled out as a major pioneering study, and recently there has appeared Professor Charles Issawi's edited volume, The Economic History of Iran 1800-1914 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971). This book brings together an outstanding collection of articles, excerpts, and sources, many of them translated from Persian, French, German, Russian, and Italian, that provide a basis for an understanding of the economic history of Iran in the nineteenth century.

Type
Articles
Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2-3 , Spring Summer 1972 , pp. 58 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1972

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1. See Keddie, Nikki R., Religion and Rebellion in Iran: The Tobacco Protest of 1891-1892 (London: Frank Cass & Co., 1966)Google Scholar; and Kazemzadeh, Firuz, Russia and Britain in Persia, 1864-1914: A Study in Imperialism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968)Google Scholar.

2. Malcolm, John Sir, The History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time, Vol. II (London, 1815), pp. 479–480.Google Scholar

3. Curzon, George N., Persia and the Persian Question, Vol. II (London, 1892), p. 471.Google Scholar

4. Rabino, Joseph, “An Economist's Notes on Persia,” reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, LXIV, Pt. II (June 29, 1901), p. 4.Google Scholar

5. Jamalzadeh, Muhammad Ali, Ganj-e Shāygān (Berlin, 1916-17), p. 122.Google Scholar

6. Rabino, op. cit., p. 9.

7. Lambton, A. K. S., Landlord and Peasant in Persia (London: Oxford University Press, 1953), pp. 143–145.Google Scholar

8. McDaniel, Robert A., “Economic Change and Economic Resiliency in 19th Century Persia,” Iranian Studies, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Winter, 1971), pp. 40–41.Google Scholar

9. Ibid., p. 41.

10. Entner, Marvin L., Russo-Persian Commercial Relations, 1828-1914 (Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 1965), p. 60.Google Scholar

11. Keddie, Nikki R., “Capitalism, Stratification, and Social Control in Iranian Agriculture, Before and After Land Reform,” in Antoun, R. and Harik, I., eds., Rural Politics and Social Change in the Middle East (Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 1972).Google Scholar

12. Persian books and the British Foreign Office documents record some of these movements, particularly in Isfahan.

13. Jamalzadeh, op. cit., pp. 99-100.

14. Entner, op. cit.; Kazemzadeh, op. cit.; and Ter-Gukasov, G. I., Ekonomicheskie i politicheskie interesy Rossii v Persii (St. Petersburg, 1916).Google Scholar