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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818374603321

Autore

Marashi Afshin

Titolo

Nationalizing Iran : culture, power, and the state, 1870-1940 / / Afshin Marashi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2008

ISBN

0-295-80061-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Studies in modernity and national identity

Disciplina

955/.04

Soggetti

Nationalism - Iran

Education and state - Iran - History

Iran History Pahlavi dynasty, 1925-1979

Iran Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Staging the nation : city, ceremony, and legitimation in late Qajar Iran -- Nationalizing pre-Islamic Iran : the return of the archaic and the authentication of modernity -- The pedagogic state : education and nationalism under Reza Shah -- Nation and memory : commemorations and the construction of national memory under Reza Shah -- Conclusion.