03958nam 22006615 450 991045849460332120210309205852.01-4008-6507-710.1515/9781400865079(CKB)2550000001328675(EBL)1719829(OCoLC)883566531(SSID)ssj0001305477(PQKBManifestationID)11754940(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001305477(PQKBWorkID)11249124(PQKB)10574978(MiAaPQ)EBC1719829(OCoLC)1132223133(MdBmJHUP)muse71002(DE-B1597)447540(OCoLC)1013942753(OCoLC)922693623(DE-B1597)9781400865079(EXLCZ)99255000000132867520190708d2014 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrontier Fictions Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 /Firoozeh Kashani-SabetCore TextbookPrinceton, NJ :Princeton University Press,[2014]©20001 online resource (326 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-15113-X 0-691-00497-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-300) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Chronology of Major Events --Glossary --Introduction. Frontier Fictions --1. A Manifest Destiny Diverted, 1804-1896 --2. Limning the Landscape: Geographical Depictions of the Homeland, 1850s-1896 --3. From Riches to Ruins: The Political Economy of Frontiers, 1897-1906 --4. Political Parables: Iran's Frontier Crucible, 1906-1914 --5. Coercing Camaraderie: The War, the Military, and the Myth of Riza Khan, 1914-1926 --6. Parenting Little Patriots: Domesticating the Homeland, 1921-1926 --Conclusion. What's in a Name? From Persia to Iran, 1926-1946 --Notes --Bibliography --IndexIn Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions," or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often fluctuating borders and the conflicts surrounding them, played a dominant role in defining the nation. On these borderlands, new ideas of citizenship and nationality were unleashed, refining older ideas of ethnicity. Kashani-Sabet maintains that land-based conceptions of countries existed before the advent of the modern nation-state. Her focus on geography enables her to explore and document fully a wide range of aspects of modern citizenship in Iran, including love of homeland, the hegemony of the Persian language, and widespread interest in archaeology, travel, and map-making. While many historians have focused on the concept of the "imagined community" in their explanations of the rise of nationalism, Kashani-Sabet is able to complement this perspective with a very tangible explanation of what connects people to a specific place. Her approach is intended to enrich our understanding not only of Iranian nationalism, but also of nationalism everywhere.Geographical perceptionIranNationalismIranHistory20th centuryNationalismIranHistory19th centuryIranBoundariesElectronic books.Geographical perceptionNationalismHistoryNationalismHistory955.05Kashani-Sabet Firoozeh649494DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910458494603321Frontier fictions1156224UNINA