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Frontier Fictions : Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 /

"In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Frontier Fictions
  • 1. A Manifest Destiny Diverted, 1804-1896
  • 2. Limning the Landscape: Geographical Depictions of the Homeland, 1850s-1896
  • 3. From Riches to Ruins: The Political Economy of Frontiers, 1897-1906
  • 4. Political Parables: Iran's Frontier Crucible, 1906-1914
  • 5. Coercing Camaraderie: The War, the Military, and the Myth of Riza Khan, 1914-1926
  • 6. Parenting Little Patriots: Domesticating the Homeland, 1921-1926
  • Conclusion. What's in a Name? From Persia to Iran, 1926-1946.