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Making history in Iran : education, nationalism, and print culture /

Iranian history was long told through a variety of stories and legend, tribal lore and genealogies, and tales of the prophets. But in the late nineteenth century, new institutions emerged to produce and circulate a coherent history that fundamentally reshaped these fragmented narratives and dynastic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vejdani, Farzin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Patronage, translation, and the printing of history
  • Schools, citizenship, and revolution
  • The state, education, and the standardization of history
  • The women's movement, the press, and exemplary biographies
  • Writing the local into the national
  • A nation of poets.