Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nad̄ir̄ Shah̄ and the Afsharid legacy / Peter Avery -- Zand Dynasty / John Perry -- Aḡha ̄Muhạmmad Khan̄ and the establishment of the Qaj̄ar̄ Dynasty / Gavin Hambly -- Iran during the reigns of Fath ʻAli ̄Shah̄ and Muhạmmad Shah̄ / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- Iran under the later Qaj̄ar̄s, 1848-1922 / Nikki Keddie and Mehrdad Amanat -- The Pahlavi ̄autocracy: Riz{u02D9}a ̄Shah̄, 1921-1941 / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- The Pahlavi ̄autocracy : Muhạmmad Riz{u02D9}a ̄Shah̄, 1941-1979 / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- Iranian relations with the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Stanford Shaw -- Iranian relations with Russia and the Soviet Union, to 1921 / F. Kazemzadeh -- Iranian relations with the European trading companies, to 1798 / Rose Greaves -- Iranian relations with Great Britain and British India, 1798-1921 / Rose Greaves -- Iranian foreign policy, 1921-1979 / Amin Saikal -- Land tenure and revenue administration in the nineteenth century / A.K.S. Lambton -- The tribes in 18th and 19th century Iran / Richard Tapper -- Traditional Iranian city in the Qaj̄ar̄ period / Gavin R.G. Hambly -- European economic penetration, 1872-1921 / Charles Issawi -- Economic development, 1921-1979 / K.S. Maclachlan -- The Iranian oil industry / Ronald Ferrier -- Religious forces in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iran / Hamid Algar -- Religious forces in twentieth-century Iran / Hamid Algar -- Popular entertainment, media and social change in 20th century Iran / Peter Chelkowski -- Printing, the press and literature in modern Iran / Peter Avery -- Persian painting under the Zand and Qaj̄ar̄ dynasties / B.W. Robinson -- The arts of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries : architecture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles / Jennifer Scarce.