Bazaar and State in Iran - The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace

Informationen zum Autor Arang Keshavarzian is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Concordia University, Montréal. Klappentext Keshavarizian's book affords unusual insights into the politics! economics and society of Iran across four decades. Zusammenfassung Arang Keshavarzian's fascinating book compares the economics and politics of the marketplace under the Pahlavis! who sought to undermine it in the drive for modernisation and under the subsequent revolutionary regime which came to power with a mandate to preserve the bazaar as an 'Islamic' institution. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The puzzle of the Tehran Bazaar under the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic; 2. Conceptualising the bazaar; 3. Bazaar transformations: networks, reputations and solidarities; 4. Networks in the context of transformative agendas; 5. Carpets, tea and teacups: commodity types and sectoral trajectories; 6. Networks of mobilisation under two regimes; 7. Conclusions; Selected bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Arang Keshavarzian, Arang (New York University) Keshavarzian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521103305
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10330-5
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies; Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education