Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (1999), which has been translated to Persian and Turkish. Excerpts from this work informed an art exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan (Yarat Centre, 2019). Kashani-Sabet subsequently published Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (2011), which won the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award. Kashani-Sabet is also the author of a novel, Martyrdom Street (2010), and a co-edited volume, Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage (2014).

'Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet analyses and historicises the broken bridges within the US-Iranian relationship. She weaves a story that is both personal and political, rich in detail and insight that is placed within a broader Middle Eastern scope. The book challenges stereotypes of Iran and Islam, moves away from simplistic explanations for the present, and holds governments and leaders on both sides accountable. She restores humanity in history and seeks common ground from which some mutual understanding can emerge.' Rowena Abdul Razak, London School of Economics

• Preface; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part I. Uncertain Overtures (1796-1914): 1. Pluralist Persia: a land of many religions; 2. The portals of Persepolis: Persian antiquity and American curiosity; 3. A martyr and many masters: America and Iranian constitutionalism; Part II. Desultory Mordernities (1914-1941): 4. Iran in transition: war, famine, and recovery, 1914-1925; 5. Flirting with secular modernity: America and social change in Iran, 1925-1939; 6. Investing in Iran: frontiers and foreign competition, 1925-1939; Part III. Cataclysms (1941-1963): 7. Unwelcome visitors: the occupation of Iran during World War II; 8. Subverting sovereignty: the politics of oil; 9. Roots of revenge: cultural flux and specters of violence; Part IV. A Troubled Middle East (1960-1979): 10. The anti-Aryan moment: decolonization, race, and human rights; 11. A political minefield: Iran between Israel and pan-Arabism; 12. The Shah's fight for hegemony: from the Persian Gulf to the Vietnam war; Part V. The Schism (1978-1988): 13. The picketers come of age: from civil disobedience to armed protest; 14. Burning bridges: revolution and the rift in US-Iranian relations; 15. Neither heroes nor hostages.

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (1999), which has been translated to Persian and Turkish. Excerpts from this work informed an art exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan (Yarat Centre, 2019). Kashani-Sabet subsequently published Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (2011), which won the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award. Kashani-Sabet is also the author of a novel, Martyrdom Street (2010), and a co-edited volume, Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage (2014).

'Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet analyses and historicises the broken bridges within the US-Iranian relationship. She weaves a story that is both personal and political, rich in detail and insight that is placed within a broader Middle Eastern scope. The book challenges stereotypes of Iran and Islam, moves away from simplistic explanations for the present, and holds governments and leaders on both sides accountable. She restores humanity in history and seeks common ground from which some mutual understanding can emerge.' Rowena Abdul Razak, London School of Economics

• Preface; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part I. Uncertain Overtures (1796-1914): 1. Pluralist Persia: a land of many religions; 2. The portals of Persepolis: Persian antiquity and American curiosity; 3. A martyr and many masters: America and Iranian constitutionalism; Part II. Desultory Mordernities (1914-1941): 4. Iran in transition: war, famine, and recovery, 1914-1925; 5. Flirting with secular modernity: America and social change in Iran, 1925-1939; 6. Investing in Iran: frontiers and foreign competition, 1925-1939; Part III. Cataclysms (1941-1963): 7. Unwelcome visitors: the occupation of Iran during World War II; 8. Subverting sovereignty: the politics of oil; 9. Roots of revenge: cultural flux and specters of violence; Part IV. A Troubled Middle East (1960-1979): 10. The anti-Aryan moment: decolonization, race, and human rights; 11. A political minefield: Iran between Israel and pan-Arabism; 12. The Shah's fight for hegemony: from the Persian Gulf to the Vietnam war; Part V. The Schism (1978-1988): 13. The picketers come of age: from civil disobedience to armed protest; 14. Burning bridges: revolution and the rift in US-Iranian relations; 15. Neither heroes nor hostages.

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (1999), which has been translated to Persian and Turkish. Excerpts from this work informed an art exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan (Yarat Centre, 2019). Kashani-Sabet subsequently published Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (2011), which won the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award. Kashani-Sabet is also the author of a novel, Martyrdom Street (2010), and a co-edited volume, Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage (2014).

'Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet analyses and historicises the broken bridges within the US-Iranian relationship. She weaves a story that is both personal and political, rich in detail and insight that is placed within a broader Middle Eastern scope. The book challenges stereotypes of Iran and Islam, moves away from simplistic explanations for the present, and holds governments and leaders on both sides accountable. She restores humanity in history and seeks common ground from which some mutual understanding can emerge.' Rowena Abdul Razak, London School of Economics

• Preface; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part I. Uncertain Overtures (1796-1914): 1. Pluralist Persia: a land of many religions; 2. The portals of Persepolis: Persian antiquity and American curiosity; 3. A martyr and many masters: America and Iranian constitutionalism; Part II. Desultory Mordernities (1914-1941): 4. Iran in transition: war, famine, and recovery, 1914-1925; 5. Flirting with secular modernity: America and social change in Iran, 1925-1939; 6. Investing in Iran: frontiers and foreign competition, 1925-1939; Part III. Cataclysms (1941-1963): 7. Unwelcome visitors: the occupation of Iran during World War II; 8. Subverting sovereignty: the politics of oil; 9. Roots of revenge: cultural flux and specters of violence; Part IV. A Troubled Middle East (1960-1979): 10. The anti-Aryan moment: decolonization, race, and human rights; 11. A political minefield: Iran between Israel and pan-Arabism; 12. The Shah's fight for hegemony: from the Persian Gulf to the Vietnam war; Part V. The Schism (1978-1988): 13. The picketers come of age: from civil disobedience to armed protest; 14. Burning bridges: revolution and the rift in US-Iranian relations; 15. Neither heroes nor hostages.