The Persian Gulf: Bandar Abbas, The Natural Trade Gateway of Southeast Iran - Softcover

Willem Floor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933823437 ISBN 13: 9781933823430

Publisher: Mage Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

Bandar Abbas, once a small fishing village, became the gateway port for Iran after Shah Abbas defeated the Portuguese in 1622. However, with the fall of the Safavids and the withdrawal of the British East India Company in 1759 the port went into decline; by 1793 Bandar Abbas was under the direct control of Oman. In 1869 Iran had to resort to force of arms to take it back from Oman.
Yet, this important port is hardly mentioned in the histories of Iran. For the first time in Bandar Abbas: The Natural Trade Gateway of Southeast Iran, Willem Floor, using primary sources, analyses the port's morphology, population, water supply, health, education, and living conditions during the Qajar period. Furthermore, he discusses in detail how Bandar Abbas came under Omani control; how the Qajars assumed direct control; as well as the town's vicissitudes under a parliamentary governed Iran, and the new centralizing Pahlavi state.
The book also gives a detailed analysis of the nature of Bandar Abbas's trade and the reasons for its ups and downs; the role of European political and economic activities; central government institutions that were present in Bandar Abbas and the many new institutions that were created in the twentieth century. A similar comprehensive analysis is offered for Minab (a nearby town) with which Bandar Abbas had a symbiotic relationship that changed in the twentieth century.
Based on primary sources this study of a major Persian Gulf port offers a comprehensive view of the "growing-up" pains Iran had to suffer to find its way into a modernizing world.
The previous volumes of the series are: The Persian Gulf: A Political and Economic History of 5 Port Cities, 1500 1750; The Rise of the Gulf Arabs, The Politics of Trade on the Persian Littoral, 1747 1792; The Rise and Fall of Bandar-e Lengeh, The Distribution Center for the Arabian Coast, 1750 1930

About this title

About the Author:

Willem Floor has published numerous works of history as well as translations. Among them: Public Health in Qajar Iran; Agriculture in Qajar Iran; The History of Theater in Iran; and A Social History of Sexual Relations in Iran. His translations include: Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin's Travels Through Northern Persia 1770 1774 , and with Hasan Javadi, Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov's The Heavenly Rose-Garden: A History of Shirvan & Daghestan; and Evliya Chelebi's Travels in Iran and the Caucasus, 1647 and 1654.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mage Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1933823437
• ISBN 13: 9781933823430
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356