Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)

Social Histories of Iran

Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on subaltern social groups, including the 'dangerous classes' contrasted with the new bourgeois elite created by the infant Pahlavi state, this 'history from below' of Iran demonstrates the explanatory power of global, transnational and comparative approaches to the study of the Middle East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781316641255
• ISBN-10: 1316641252
• Artikelnr.: 60095504

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Cronin is Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Research Fellow at St Antony's College and is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. She is the author and editor of multiple books and journal articles on Middle Eastern and Iranian history including Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The 'Dangerous Classes' Since 1800 (2019), Armies and State-building in the Modern Middle East: Politics, Nationalism and Military Reform (2013), Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran: Opposition, Protest and Revolt, 1921-1941 (2010) and Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; I. Iran: 1. The Iranian Revolution, the Islamic Republic and
the 'Red 1970s': a Global History; 2. Bread and Justice in Qajar Iran: the
Moral Economy, the Free Market and the Hungry Poor; 3. The Dark Side of
Modernism: the 'Dangerous Classes' in Iran; II. The Wider Middle East: 4.
Noble Robbers, Avengers and Entrepreneurs: Eric Hobsbawm and Banditry in
Iran, North Africa and the Middle East; 5. Islam Slave Agency and
Abolitionism in Iran, North Africa and the Middle East; 6. Modernism and
the Politics of Dress: Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World.