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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: history of modern Iran
  name:
    name part: Abrahamian, Ervand
    name part: 1940-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: Second edition, revised and updated.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Iran entered the twentieth century with oxen and wooden plough. It exited with steel mills, one of the world's highest automobile accident rates and, to the consternation of many, a nuclear program. This book narrates the dramatic transformation that has taken place in twentieth-century Iran. Since the main engine of this transformation has been the central government, the book focuses on the state, on how it was created and expanded and how its expansion has had profound repercussions not only on the polity and economy, but also on the environment, culture and, most important of all, wider society. Some repercussions were intended. Others, especially protest movements and political revolutions, were not. This book may appear somewhat quaint and even insidious to those convinced that the state is inherently a part of the problem rather than solution of contemporary dilemmas. But since this book is about major transformations, and these transformations in Iran have been initiated invariably by the central government, it will focus on the latter hopefully without falling into the Hegelian-Rankean pitfalls of glorifying the state.
  table of contents: Introduction, 1. "Royal despots": state and society under the Qajars; 2. Reform, revolution, and the Great War; 3. The iron fist of Reza Shah; 4. The nationalist interregnum; 5. Muhammad Reza Shah's White Revolution; 6. The Islamic Republic; Notes; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index.
  note: Ervand Abrahamian.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ir---
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Middle East / General
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: DS316.3 .A27 2018
  classification: 955.05
  identifier: 9781107198340
  identifier: 1107198348
  identifier: 2018007007
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180413
    record change date: 20180920130002.0
    record identifier: in00004023334