Iran and Iranian Studies
Author: Īraj Afshār
Publisher: Zagros Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Īraj Afshār
Publisher: Zagros Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edmund Herzig
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2012-09-15
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781850439301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation.
Author: Touraj Daryaee
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-02-16
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0199732159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This handbook is a guide to Iran's complex history. The book emphasizes the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while also describing the important patterns of transformation that have characterized Iran's past.
Author: Farzin Vejdani
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2014-11-05
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 080479281X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 storylines. Farzin Vejdani investigates this transformation to show how cultural institutions and a growing public-sphere affected history-writing, and how in turn this writing defined Iranian nationalism. Interactions between the state and a cross-section of Iranian society—scholars, schoolteachers, students, intellectuals, feminists, and poets—were crucial in shaping a new understanding of nation and history. This enlightening book draws on previously unexamined primary sources—including histories, school curricula, pedagogical materials, periodicals, and memoirs—to demonstrate how the social locations of historians writ broadly influenced their interpretations of the past. The relative autonomy of these historians had a direct bearing on whether history upheld the status quo or became an instrument for radical change, and the writing of history became central to debates on social and political reform, the role of women in society, and the criteria for citizenship and nationality. Ultimately, this book traces how contending visions of Iranian history were increasingly unified as a centralized Iranian state emerged in the early twentieth century.
Author: Setrag Manoukian
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1136627170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran through the perspective of the city. Addressing the relationship between history, poetry and politics in Iran, the author demonstrates that the question of knowledge is crucial to an understanding of the political and existential dimensions of life in Iran today.
Author: Annabelle Sreberny
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-01-16
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0857736612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the BBC has had a hand in every political upheaval in the country. In this vein the BBC has become a notable element in the complex and tortured narrative of Anglo-Iranian relations. The BBC Persian Service was initially developed in 1940 to prepare and broadcast British war-time propaganda. And it has since been seen by many in Iran as an integral part of British policy-making in the region. Thirty years ago, the Shah of Iran regarded the BBC Persian Service radio as his 'enemy number one' and held it responsible for promoting the revolution of 1979. Only a couple decades earlier, the BBC Persian Service was widely accused for having been complicit in the CIA-led 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Musaddiq. And a decade earlier, the BBC Persian Service was strongly linked to the British-planned removal of Reza Shah in 1941. The BBC Persian service has frequently been perceived as an entity which was not simply a vehicle to record the changes occurring in Iran and throughout the Middle East, but rather an active agent of change. In this book, Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh track the history of the BBC Persian Service, critically analysing both the assumptions that the BBC is a standard bearer for objective reporting and representations of it as a simple tool of Western interests. Also examining the history of relations between the Foreign Office and the BBC Persian Service, they demonstrate that these have never been pre-defined or rigid. Instead, they explore how both institutions have moved from an interest in what can crudely be called state-orchestrated 'propaganda' to a more subtle advocacy of fair and balanced journalism as the best agent of British values and influence.
Author: Abbas Amanat
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300248937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first
Author: John Ghazvinian
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 0307271811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--
Author: Ehsan Bakhshandeh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-09-29
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0857725483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Negative portrayals of the West in Iran are often centred around the CIA-engineered coup of 1953, which overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, or the hostage-taking crisis in 1979 following the attack on the US embassy in Tehran. Looking past these iconic events, Ehsan Bakhshandeh explores the deeper anti-imperialistic and anti-hegemonic roots of the hostility to Westernism that is evident in the Iranian press. Distinguishing between negative and outright hostile perceptions of the West - which also encompasses Britain, France and Germany - the book traces how the West is represented as the `Occident' in the country's media. From the Qajar period and the Tobacco protests of the late nineteenth century to the ill-fated Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1919, through to the 1953 coup and 1979 hostage crisis, Bakshandeh highlights the various points in history when misinterpretations and conflicts led to a demonisation of the `other' in the Iranian media. The major recent source of contention between the West and Iran has of course been the nuclear issue and the resultant regime of sanctions. By examining how this and other issues have been represented by the Iranian press, Bakshandeh offers a crucial and often-overlooked aspect of the key relationship between Iran and the West.
Author: Homa Katouzian
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1134430957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book contains the most detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian history and politics, both modern and traditional. Every chapter is a study of its own specific topics while being firmly a part of the whole argument. The discussions include close comparisons with the history of Europe to demonstrate the diversities of the logic and sociology of Iranian history from their European counterparts. Being the first modern theory of Iranian history, it is highly regarded by Iranian historians and social scientists, especially as it has helped to resolve many of the anomalies resulting from the application of traditional theories.