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Persian Gulf - Bandar Abbas, the Natural Trade Gateway of Southeast Iran (Paperback, New)
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Persian Gulf - Bandar Abbas, the Natural Trade Gateway of Southeast Iran (Paperback, New)
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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
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