8vo, xvii, 222 p., b/w photographs, 1 map, cloth, silver title on front cover, previous owner’s name inscribed on verso front & back end papers, Notes, Appendix, Biblio, Index, 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.