Iran at war : interactions with the modern world and the struggle with imperial Russia / Maziar Behrooz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behrooz, Maziar, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--Iran.

Russia (Federation).

Iran--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

HTML

Summary:

"Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our first memories of interacting with trees will be of climbing them. Exploring how tree climbers have been represented in literature and art in Europe and North America over the ages, The Tree Climbing Cure unpacks the curative value of tree climbing, examining when and why tree climbers climb, and what tree climbing can do for (and say about) the climber's mental health and wellbeing. Bringing together research into poetry, novels, and paintings with the science of wellbeing and mental health and engaging with myth, folklore, psychology and storytelling, Tree Climber also examines the close relationship between tree climbing and imagination, and questions some longstanding, problematic gendered injunctions about women climbing trees. Discussing, among others, the literary works of Margaret Atwood; Charlotte Bronte; Geoffrey Chaucer; Angela Carter; Kiran Desai; and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as work by artists such as Peter Doig; Paula Rego; and Goya, this book stands out as an almost encyclopedic examination of cultural representations of this quirky and ultimately restorative pastime"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. QAJAR REUNIFICATION

The Eunuch King and reunification of Iran

Aqa Muhammad Shah

Defeat of the Zand

Conquest of the Caucasus

Chapter 2. IRAN: STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

Fath Ali Shah Qavanllu-Qajar

Early Qajar state

Social classes and land tenure

Ulama-state relations

Early nineteenth-century society

The Qajar militaryl

Chapter 3. DIPLOMACY AND WAR: THE FIRST RUSSO-IRANIAN WAR, 1804-1813

Prelude to war, 1801-1803

Abbas Mirza Qavanllu-Qajar

Fall of Ganjeh, 1804

First siege of Iravan, summer 1804

The Battle of Qarabagh and the siege of Ganjeh and Badkubeh, 1805

Diplomacy and intrigue

Battles of 1806

The Peaceful 1807

The Gardane mission, 1807-1809

Second siege of Iravan and the Battle of Nakhjavan, October-December 1808

The Jones Brydges mission, 1809-1810

Chapter 4. INTERWAR YEARS AND THE SECOND RUSSO-IRANIAN WAR

The interwar years

Prelude to war

Russian policy toward the southeastern Caucasus

Council of Sultanieh

The Battlefield

Causes of the Second Russo-Iranian War

The aftermath

CONCLUSION: SEVEN POINTS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7556-3740-2

0-7556-3738-0

OCLC:

1371144195