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  3. The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2012
      24 September 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139020978
      9780521867627
      9780521687171
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139020978
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 342 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 346 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History, Twentieth Century Regional History, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
      Series:
      Cambridge Middle East Studies (40)
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History, Twentieth Century Regional History, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
    Series:
    Cambridge Middle East Studies (40)
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    The first full-length study of Iranian nationalism in nearly five decades, this sophisticated and challenging book by the distinguished historian Ali M. Ansari explores the idea of nationalism in the creation of modern Iran. It does so by considering the broader developments in national ideologies that took place following the emergence of the European Enlightenment and showing how these ideas were adopted by a non-European state. Ansari charts a course through twentieth-century Iran, analysing the growth of nationalistic ideas and their impact on the state and demonstrating the connections between historiographical and political developments. In so doing, he shows how Iran's different regimes manipulated ideologies of nationalism and collective historical memory to suit their own ends. Drawing on hitherto untapped sources, the book concludes that it was the revolutionary developments and changes that occurred during the first half of the twentieth century that paved the way for later radicalisation.

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    'This excellent work asks these basic questions: what is an Iranian; and how has Iranian identity been shaped over the past 100 years? … an insightful discussion of issues of nationalism in modern Iran.'

    Grant Farr Source: Middle East Media and Book Reviews (membr.uwm.edu)

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