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Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and Political Culture

Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and Political Culture


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Political upheaval has marked Iran's history throughout the twentieth century. Wars, revolutions, coups and the impact of modernism have shaped Iran's historiography, as they have the country's history. Originally based on oral and written sources, which underpinned traditional genealogical and dynastic history, Iran's historiography was transformed in the early 20th century with the development of a 'new' school of presenting history. Here emphasis shifted from the anecdotal story-telling genre to social, political, economic, cultural and religious history-writing. A new understanding of the nation state and the importance of identity and foreign relations in defining Iran's place in the modern world all served to transform the perspective of Iranian historiography. Touraj Atabaki here brings together a range of rich contributions from international scholars who cover the leading themes of the historiography of 20th-century Iran, including constitutional reform and revolution, literature and architecture, identity, women and gender, nationalism, modernism, Orientalism, Marxism and Islamism.

Table of Contents:
1- Note on Transliteration 2- Acknowledgment 3- Note on Contributors 4- Historiography of Twentieth Century Iran: Memory, Amnesia and Invention Touraj Atabaki 5- Historiography and Crafting Iranian National Identity Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 6- Memory and Amnesia in the Historiography of the Constitutional Revolution Abbas Amanat 7- Disintegrating the “Discourse of Disintegration”: Some Reflections on the Historiography of the Late Qajar Period and Iranian Cultural Memory Oliver Bast 8- Agency and Subjectivity in Iranian National Historiography Touraj Atabaki 9- The Nation’s Poet: Ferdausi and the Iranian National Imagination Afshin Marashi 10- The Pahlavi School of Historiography on the Pahlavi Era Kaveh Bayat 11- Architectural Historiography 1921-1942 Kamran Safamanesh 12- The Paranoid Style in Iranian Historiography H. E. Chehabi and Ahmad Ashraf 13- Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Historiography of Modern Iran Mana Kia, Afsaneh Najmabadi and Sima Shakhsari 14-Marxism, Historiography and Historical Consciousness in Modern Iran: A Preliminary Study Afshin Matin-asgari 15- Islamist Historiography in Post-Revolutionary Iran Kamran Scot Aghaie 16- Index

About the Author :
Touraj Atabaki is Professor of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University and Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.

Review :
""[A]n excellent addition to the ever-increasing literature on contemporary Iran... [T]his book should be included on the list of recommended readings on contemporary Iranian history."" --CHOICE


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  • ISBN-13: 9781845119621
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1845119622
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2010
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: Historiography and Political Culture


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