Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran
Stephanie Cronin
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Paperback. Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Croninexcavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency." Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HBW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency.
Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349359530
SKU
V9781349359530
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About Stephanie Cronin
STEPHANIE CRONIN is Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK. She has also held an Iran Heritage Foundation fellowship for many years. She is the author of The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran 1910-1925 (1997) and Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941 (2006), and editor of ... Read more
Reviews for Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran
'...eminently readable...useful reading for anyone interested in the background to contemporary popular Iranian nationalism.' -Asian Affairs