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The Lonely War : One Woman's Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran.
As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this socioeconomic revolution had an unintended effect. As Fathi shows, the forces unleashed in 1979 inadvertently created a robust Iranian middle class, one that today hungers for more personal freedoms and a renewed relationship with the outside world. And unless an international confrontation allows. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (484 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780465040926 0465040926 9780465069996 0465069991 |