1. Good general works on the Qajar period include Peter Avery, Gavin Hambly, and Charles Melville, eds., The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 7: From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
2. Ann Lambton, Qajar Persia (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987)
3. and Edmund Bosworth and Carole Hillenbrand, eds., Qajar Iran: Political, Social, and Cultural Change (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1983).
4. For greater detail about Iran’s economy, see Charles Issawi, The Economic History of Iran, 1800–1914 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971)
5. and Floor, Agriculture in Qajar Iran (Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2003), which despite the title is an excellent survey of Iranian social history during Qajar times.