Download or read book Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran written by Arash Khazeni and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of their territory to the outside world. This book opens new ground by approaching 19th-century Iran from its edge and placing the tribal periphery at the heart of a tale about empire and assimilation in the modern Middle East.