Nationalizing Iran - Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940

Informationen zum Autor Afshin Marashi is assistant professor of history at California State University at Sacramento. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung When Naser al-Din Shah! who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896! claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth! his authority rested on pre-modern conceptions of sacred kingship. This title follows Naser al-Din Shah on a tour of Europe in 1873 that led to his importing a new public image of monarchy - an image based on the European late imperial model.

Product details

• Authors: Afshin Marashi
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2008
• EAN: 9780295987996
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98799-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity; Studies in Modernity and Natio; Studies in Modernity and National Identity; Studies in Modernity and Natio; Nationalizing Iran
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science