Nationalizing Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nationalizing Iran write by Afshin Marashi. This book was released on 2011-07-01. Nationalizing Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred kingship. By 1941, when Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi came to power, his claim to authority as the Shah of Iran was infused with the language of modern nationalism. In short, between roughly 1870 and 1940, Iran's traditional monarchy was forged into a modern nation-state. In Nationalizing Iran, Afshin Marashi explores the changes that made possible this transformation of Iran into a social abstraction in which notions of state, society, and culture converged. He 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-relying heavily on the use of public ceremonies, rituals, and festivals to promote loyalty to the monarch. Meanwhile, Iranian intellectuals were reimagining ethnic history to reconcile “authentic” Iranian culture with the demands of modernity. From the reform of public education to the symbolism surrounding grand public ceremonies in honor of long-dead poets, Marashi shows how the state invented and promoted key features of the common culture binding state and society. The ideological thrust of that century would become the source of dramatic contestation in the late twentieth century. Marashi's study of the formative era of Iranian nationalism will be valuable to scholars and students of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, as well as journalists, policy makers, and other close observers of contemporary Iran.
Oil, Power, and Principle
Oil, Power, and Principle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oil, Power, and Principle write by Mostafa Elm. This book was released on 1994-12-01. Oil, Power, and Principle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work deals with the oil crises of the 1950s, precipitated by Iran's decision to nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The roots of the revolt against British imperialism are explored here, along with the long-term consequences of instability in the Middle East.
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism write by Reza Zia-Ebrahimi. This book was released on 2016-03-15. The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to Europe and the Aryan race, this ideology remains the most politically potent form of identity in Iran. Akhundzadeh and Kermani's nationalist reading of Iranian history has been drilled into the minds of Iranians since its adoption by the Pahlavi state in the early twentieth century. Spread through mass schooling, historical narratives, and official statements of support, their ideological perspective has come to define Iranian culture and domestic and foreign policy. Zia-Ebrahimi follows the development of dislocative nationalism through a range of cultural and historical materials, and he captures its incorporation of European ideas about Iranian history, the Aryan race, and a primordial nation. His work emphasizes the agency of Iranian intellectuals in translating European ideas for Iranian audiences, impressing Western conceptions of race onto Iranian identity.
Nationalizing Iran
Nationalizing Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nationalizing Iran write by Afshin Marashi. This book was released on 2003. Nationalizing Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Iran and the CIA
Iran and the CIA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iran and the CIA write by D. Bayandor. This book was released on 2010-03-03. Iran and the CIA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early 1950s, frail septuagenarian prime minister of Iran, Doctor Mohammad Mosaddeq, shook the world - challenging Britain by nationalizing Iran's British-run oil industries. In August 1953 he was overthrown. Revisiting these events with astonishing new evidence, this book challenges the conventionally-held theory of foul play by the CIA.
