The Political History of Modern Iran
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4399-8 (ISBN)
In this textbook, Ali Rahnema draws on his experience teaching and researching on modern Iran to render one hundred years of modern Iranian politics and history into easy-to-follow episodic chapters. Step by step, and taking a chronological approach, students are given the core information, analysis, and critical assessment to understand the flow of contemporary Iranian history.
This is a comprehensive and exhaustive guide for undergraduate and graduate level courses on modern Iranian history and politics. The textbook is complete with the following pedagogical features:
* An initial chapter on how to study Iranian history and how to approach historiography
* Images of key individuals discussed in each chapter
* Text boxes throughout to highlight key episodes, concepts, and ideas
*Three types of exam questions; factual and analytical, seminar, and discussion at the end of each chapter
* Glossaries at the end of each chapter
*A comprehensive timeline
Topics covered include: party formations; the flourishing of the press; the expansion or reduction of political and civil rights; repression and human right abuses; foreign intervention and influence; obsessions over conspiracies; the influence of Western ideologies, the role of nationalism, cultural and historical Persian chauvinism; and Shi’i Islam and competing Shiisms.
Ali Rahnema is Emeritus Professor at the American University of Paris, France. He is the author of The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran (2021), Call to Arms: Iran’s Marxist Revolutionaries (2021), Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks (2015), Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad (2011), and An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shariati (2000) among others.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: THE QUEST FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY UNDER THE QAJARS: (1905-1911)
CHAPTER 2: A STATE MADE DYSFUNCTIONAL (1912-1921)
CHAPTER 3: REZA SHAH: NATION BUILDING, REPRESSION, EUROPEANIZATION AND MODERNIZATION. (1921-1941)
CHAPTER 4. MOHAMMAD REZA SHAH: FOREIGN INVASION, OIL NATIONALIZATION AND THE COUP (1941-1953)
CHAPTER 5: FROM POST-COUP TO POST-UPRISING (AUGUST 1953- JUNE 1963)
CHAPTER 6: THE SHAH’S PUSH TOWARDS THE GATES OF THE GREAT CIVILIZATION (1964-1977)
CHAPTER 7: THE REVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION FROM MONARCHY TO REPUBLIC (MARCH 1977- MARCH 1979)
CHAPTER 8: KHOMEYNI’S ISLAMIC REPUBLIC (1979-1989)
CHAPTER 9: PRESIDENT RAFSANJANI, THE CRUSADER OF CONSTRUCTION (1989-1997)
CHAPTER 10: KHATAMI’S PRESIDENCY: A DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY DEFLECTED AND FOREGONE (1997-2005)
CHAPTER 11: THE AHMADINEJAD PRESIDENCY (2005-2013)
CHAPTER 12: ROWHANI: SMILES, HOPE AND MODERATION DASHED (2013-2021)
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.08.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 70 b&w images |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 169 x 244 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7556-4399-2 / 0755643992 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7556-4399-8 / 9780755643998 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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