8vo, xvii, 222 p., b/w photographs, 1 map, cloth, notes, appendix, biblio, index, ex-library stamps verso front and lower cover, otherwise copy in very good condition, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, first edition, 1982.

Synopsis

Based on the author’s thesis (Ph. D.–University of Chicago, 1973)
Guity Nashat’s book is a study of Ḥusayn Khān Mirza Husain Khan el Dauelch Spahsalar’s innovations, which he strove to establish while he held a succession of government offices as minister of justice, war, foreign affairs and Prime minister.