Modern Iran a history in documents /

"Covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in translation that shed light on aspects of the political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern Iran. It makes use of a combination of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Nabavi, Negin, 1965- (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, [2016]
Series:Princeton series of Middle Eastern sources in translation.
Subjects:
Iran > History > Sources.
Iran.
History.
Sources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Iran in the "long nineteenth century": 1785-1911
  • Qajar rule, society, and the great powers
  • Reforms, economic concessions, and expressions of dissent
  • Constitution and constitutionalism: debates and developments
  • Part II. 1911-1978
  • War, coup d'état, hopes, and disillusionment
  • State-building, the politics of modernization, and its discontents
  • Intellectuals, Islam, and the search for "cultural authenticity"
  • Part III. The Iranian Revolution: 1978-1979
  • The months leading to the 1979 Revolution
  • Part Iv. Iran today: 1979 to the present
  • Defining the Islamic Republic
  • Voices of reform and societal transformations
  • The tenth presidential elections and their aftermath.

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