Afshin Marashi

Nationalizing Iran

Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Between roughly 1870 and 1940, Iran's traditional monarchy was forged into a modern nation-state. Marishi explores the changes that made possible this tranformation of Iran into a social abstraction in which notions of state, society, and culture converged. Afshin Marashi is assistant professor history, California State University in Sacramento.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780295988207
• ISBN-10: 0295988207
• Artikelnr.: 23426635

Autorenporträt

Afshin Marashi is assistant professor of history at California State University at Sacramento.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Staging the Nation: City, Ceremony, and Legitimation in Late Qajar Iran
2. Nationalizing Pre-Islamic Iran: The Return of the Archaic and the
Authentication of Modernity
3. The Pedagogic State: Education and Nationalism under Reza Shah
4. Nation and Memory: Commemorations and the Construction of National
Memory under Reza Shah
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index