Stephen C. Poulson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at James Madison University.

Until recently, social movement theory and research focused almost entirely on Western movements. Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran shows how one set of movements 'worked' where the state, other structural elements, and culture differed dramatically from the West, even while Western ideas and meddling shaped them. Poulson's highly readable book is important for students of social movements and also for others who want to better understand this country that is so closely related to current global conflicts yet so crudely caricatured in our media.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Foundations of Social Movement TheoryPart 3 Part I: Culture, Social Structure, and Unifying Narratives in Twentieth Century IranChapter 4 Culture and Anchoring Social Movement Narratives in Islamic HistoryChapter 5 Culture and Traditional Forms of Symbolic Protest in Iranian HistoryChapter 6 Social Structure: Relations Between the Religious Elite, the Bazaar, the State, and the Crowd in IranChapter 7 Social Structure: British and Russian Intervention in IranPart 8 Part II: Cycles of Protest and the Negotiation of Movement Frames in Twentieth Century IranChapter 9 The Tobacco Movement (1890-1892)Chapter 10 The Constitutional Revolution (1906-1909)Chapter 11 Post World War II Nationalist Movements: The Tudeh and the National Front (1944-1953)Chapter 12 Ideology and Movement Frames of the Iranian Religious Revival (1962-1978)Chapter 13 Post-Revolutionary Movements in Modern IranChapter 14 A Century of Social Movements in Iran