THE MAKING OF MODERN IRAN: STATE AND SOCIETY UNDER RIZA SHAH, 1921-1941

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The articles in this volume collectively present a picture of Iran under Riza Shah in all its complexity, in darker as well as lighter shades, highlighting the era's debt to the past as well as its legacy to the future.

Author : Stephanie Cronin, Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow at University College Northhampton . Publisher : Routledge Series - Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series
Publication Date : July 2007

Introduction : This collection of essays, by a distinguished group of specialists, offers a new and exciting interpretation of Riza Shah's Iran. A period of key importance, the years between 1921-1941 have, until now, remained relatively neglected. Recently, however, there has been a marked revival of interest in the history of these two decades and this collection brings together some of the best of this recent new scholarship. Illustrating the diversity and complexity of interpretations to which contemporary scholarship has given rise, the collection looks at both the high politics of the new state and at 'history from below', examining some of the fierce controversies which have arisen surrounding such issues as the gender politics of the new regime, the nature of its nationalism, and its treatment of minorities. This volume arose from a conference at SOAS, supported by the Iran Heritage Foundation and the British Institute of Persian Studies. Stephanie Cronin is Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow at the University of Northampton.
She has published extensively on modern history in the Middle East, and her most recent book is Tribal Politics in Iran: rural conflict and the new state, 1921-1941, also published by Routledge.

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