Iran in motion : mobility, space, and the Trans-Iranian railway / Mikiya Koyagi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koyagi, Mikiya, author.

Series:

Stanford scholarship online.

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroad travel--Iran--History--20th century.

Railroad travel.

Railroads--Social aspects--Iran--History--20th century.

Railroads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first national railway, it produced and disrupted various kinds of movement-voluntary and forced, intended and unintended, on different scales and in different directions-among Iranian diplomats, tribesmen, migrant laborers, technocrats, railway workers, tourists and pilgrims, as well as European imperial officials alike. 'Iran in Motion' tells the hitherto unexplored stories of these individuals as they experienced new levels of mobility.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Map

Introduction

1 Building a Transimperial Infrastructure

2 The Road to Salvation

3 Nationalizing the Railway

4 Redirecting Mobilities

5 Death on the Persian Corridor

6 Workers of the Victory Bridge

7 Traveling Citizens

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 4, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503627673

1503627675

OCLC:

1182021893