Name: Social Histories of Iran
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Author: Cronin, Stephanie
ISBN: 9781316641255

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Author

Stephanie Cronin

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

316

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.7 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781316641255

Synopsis "Social Histories of Iran "

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.

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