Introduction / Roxane Farmanfarmaian -- Prologue : a dream of empire / Peter W. Avery -- War. Between Scylla and Charybdis : policy-making under constraint in early Qajar Persia / Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar -- Building a new army : military reform in Qajar Iran / Stephanie Cronin -- The Turko-Persian War of 1821-1823 : Winning the war but losing the peace / Graham Williamson -- Social networks and border conflicts : the first Herat War / Vanessa Martin -- Peace. The consolidation of Iran's frontier on the Persian Gulf in the 19th century / Lawrence Potter -- Narrowing the frontier : mid-19th century efforts to delimit, map and demarcate the Perso-Ottoman border / Richard Schofield -- Crime. Security and insecurity : socio-political conditions of Iran, 1875-1924 / Mansoureh Ettehadieh -- Nezam-Mafie. Merchants without Frontiers : trade, travel and revolution in late Qajar Iran : the memoirs of Hajj Mohammad-Taqi Jourabchi, 1907-1911 / Ali Gheissari -- The politics of concession / Roxane Farmanfarmaian.