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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818702203321

Autore

Ansari Ali M.

Titolo

The politics of nationalism in modern Iran / / Ali M. Ansari [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-316-08913-4

1-139-56401-3

1-283-61078-7

1-139-02097-8

9786613923233

1-139-55042-X

1-139-55538-3

1-139-54917-0

1-139-55413-1

1-139-55167-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge Middle East studies ; ; 40

Classificazione

HIS026000

Disciplina

320.540955

Soggetti

Nationalism - Iran - History - 20th century

Iran Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. An Iranian enlightenment; 3. The age of extremes; 4. The age of contestation.

Sommario/riassunto

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.