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Author:   James M. Gustafson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9780755634842

ISBN 10:   0755634845
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   20 February 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Part One: Environmental Crises in Early Modern Iran. 1. Nature and History in Iran. The Guarded Domains. Geography and History. Does Nature Exist? On the Plateau. Connecting the 18th and 19th Centuries. 2. Iran’s Little Ice Age Crisis. Climate Change and the Fall of the Safavid Empire. Going with the Grain. Warfare and Fragmentation. Images of Decline. Part Two: Assembling Empire. 3. Farms and Villages. An Empire of Grain. The Time and Space of Agriculture. Working the Land. Patrimonialism and Gender. Shares of the Harvest 4. Pastures. Non-Human Animals. Pastoralists and Pastoralism. The Thin Veneer. Seeing Like a Shah. On the Frontier. 5. Cities: Concentrated Nature. Hierarchies of Place. The Politics of Urban Space. Inscribing Empire in the City. Urban Endowments and Rural Landscapes. Part Three: Confluence. 6. Ecologies of Disaster: Earthquakes, Famine, and Disease. Unsteady Ground. When Provisioning Fails. Unhealthy Climes. Mastering Nature. 7. New Geographies of the Late 19th Century. Collapsing Time and Space. The Mirror of the Lands. All the Farmers Have Become Hajjis. Concessions as a Model of Reform. 8. The End of Empire. Revolution. Nature and the Nation. War, Famine, and the Coup. Conclusion. Bibliography. Notes.

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The Lion and the Sun demonstrates how environmental history can offer new insights on numerous historiographical debates about Iranian politics, economy, society, and culture. James Gustafson’s stories of Iran’s rural, pastoral, and urban communities masterfully reveal the complex relationships between people and non-human elements of their environment. A must read. * Mikiya Koyagi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA * This is a beautifully written and pioneering book on the environmental and social history of modern Iran. It offers careful research into neglected ecological crises and places them in the broader field of global environmental history. In the process, the author sheds light on many fascinating dimensions of this period that are essential for a proper understanding of the political and economic transformations of Iran and the Middle East. * Ranin Kazemi, Associate Professor, San Diego State University, USA *

The Lion and the Sun demonstrates how environmental history can offer new insights on numerous historiographical debates about Iranian politics, economy, society, and culture. James Gustafson’s stories of Iran’s rural, pastoral, and urban communities masterfully reveal the complex relationships between people and non-human elements of their environment. A must read. * Mikiya Koyagi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA *

Author Information

James M. Gustafson is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the International Studies program at Indiana State University, USA. He is the author of Kirman and the Qajar Empire (2015) and serves on the executive board of the Association for Iranian Studies and is a senior editor for the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Asian Commercial History.

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