Nader Sohrabi

Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In his book on constitutional revolutions in the Ottoman Empire and Iran in the early twentieth century, Nader Sohrabi considers the global diffusion of institutions and ideas, their regional and local reworking and the long-term consequences of adaptations. He delves into historic reasons for greater resilience of democratic institutions in Turkey as compared to Iran. Arguing that revolutions are time-bound phenomena whose forms follow global models in vogue at particular historical junctures, he challenges the ahistoric and purely local understanding of them. Furthermore, he argues that macro-structural preconditions alone cannot explain the occurrence of revolutions, but global waves, contingent events and the intervention of agency work together to bring them about in competition with other possible outcomes. To establish these points, the book draws on a wide array of archival and primary sources that afford a minute look at revolutions' unfolding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139210508
• Artikelnr.: 38279726

Autorenporträt

Nader Sohrabi is an Associate Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University. He has taught Middle East History and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Iowa, Columbia University and New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The state of revolution
3. The Young Turk Revolution and the global wave
4. Constitutional struggles and struggle for the constitution
5. Government within the government: the purges
6. Counterrevolution
7. Iran: reform and patrimonialism in comparative perspective
8. The unlikely revolution: the constitutional revolution of 1906 in Iran in light of the Young Turks
9. Concluding remarks.