Oil Crisis in Iran - From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat

Based on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration, this study throws fresh light on the Iranian oil crisis which would culminate in the coup of August 1953, one of the most significant and widely studied episodes of modern Iranian history.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. US involvement; 2. US concerns: oil or communism?; 3. Parliamentary politics; 4. The road to the coup; 5. Memory revised.

About the author

Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of several books including Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982) and A History of Modern Iran (2018). He was elected in 2010 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Summary

Based on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration, this study throws fresh light on the Iranian oil crisis which would culminate in the coup of August 1953, one of the most significant and widely studied episodes of modern Iranian history.

Product details

• Authors: Ervand Abrahamian, Ervand (City University of New York) Abrahamian, Abrahamian Ervand
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108930888
• ISBN: 978-1-108-93088-8
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Middle East / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history