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Social histories of Iran : modernism and marginality in the Middle East / Stephanie Cronin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cronin, Stephanie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--Iran.
- Social classes.
- Marginality, Social--Iran.
- Marginality, Social.
- Iran--Social conditions.
- Iran.
- Social conditions.
- Iran--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological nationalism. In this book, Stephanie Cronin problematizes both of these narratives. Its attention is firmly fixed on subaltern social groups: the 'dangerous classes' and their constructed contrast with the new and avowedly modern bourgeois elite created by the infant Pahlavi state; the hungry poor pitted against the deregulation and globalization of the late nineteenth century Iranian economy; rural criminals of every variety, bandits, smugglers and pirates, and the profoundly ambiguous attitudes towards them of the communities from which they came. In foregrounding these groups, the book also seeks to move beyond a narrow national context, demonstrating, through a series of case-studies, the explanatory power of global, transnational and comparative approaches to the study of the social history of the Middle East.
- Contents:
- The Iranian Revolution, the Islamic Republic and the Red 1970s : a global history
- Bread and Justice in Qajar Iran : the moral economy, the free market and the hungry poor
- The Dark Side of Modernism : the Dangerous Classes in Iran
- Noble Robbers, Avengers and Entrepreneurs : Eric Hobsbawm and banditry in Iran, North Africa and the Middle East
- Islam, Slave Agency and Abolitionism in Iran, North Africa and the Middle East
- Modernism and the Politics of Dress : anti-veiling campaigns in the Muslim World
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108120289
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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