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

Informationen zum Autor Afshin Marashi 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. Between roughly 1870 and 1940! Iran's traditional monarchy was forged into a modern nation-state. This book explores the changes that made possible this transformation of Iran. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Afshin Marashi
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2008
• EAN: 9780295988207
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98820-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity; Studies in Modernity and National Identity; Studies in Modernity and Natio
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science