A History of Persia
Watson, Robert Grant / Ansari, Ali M.![A History of Persia](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/391/39168381/CHSBZCOP0339168381.jpg)
Robert Grant Watson was a British diplomat attached to the British Legation in Persia. His A History of Persia, published in 1866, is a detailed account of events in the country in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the foundations of the Qajar dynasty were being laid. Watson uses both European and Persian sources to detail the circumstances of the Qajar rise to rule and recount the tumultuous events of Persia affairs - both foreig...