Hooshang Amirahmadi is a professor and former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. He holds a PhD from Cornell University and is the founder and president of the American Iranian Council. His publications include Revolution and Economic Transition: The Iranian Experience, three books in Farsi and numerous edited books and journal articles.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction and Epochal Transition TheoryChapter 2: Pre-capitalist Social FormationsChapter 3: Population, Urbanization and InfrastructureChapter 4: Economic Forces and TransformationsChapter 5: State, Polity and Public PolicyChapter 6: Civil Society and Ideological EncountersChapter 7: Foreign Trade, Interventions and PolicyChapter 8: Class Alliances and Political StrugglesChapter 9: Conclusions and Theoretical ImplicationsAppendix: Early Modes of ExistenceGlossaryBibliography

Hooshang Amirahmadi is a professor and former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. He holds a PhD from Cornell University and is the founder and president of the American Iranian Council. His publications include Revolution and Economic Transition: The Iranian Experience, three books in Farsi and numerous edited books and journal articles.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction and Epochal Transition TheoryChapter 2: Pre-capitalist Social FormationsChapter 3: Population, Urbanization and InfrastructureChapter 4: Economic Forces and TransformationsChapter 5: State, Polity and Public PolicyChapter 6: Civil Society and Ideological EncountersChapter 7: Foreign Trade, Interventions and PolicyChapter 8: Class Alliances and Political StrugglesChapter 9: Conclusions and Theoretical ImplicationsAppendix: Early Modes of ExistenceGlossaryBibliography

Hooshang Amirahmadi is a professor and former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. He holds a PhD from Cornell University and is the founder and president of the American Iranian Council. His publications include Revolution and Economic Transition: The Iranian Experience, three books in Farsi and numerous edited books and journal articles.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction and Epochal Transition TheoryChapter 2: Pre-capitalist Social FormationsChapter 3: Population, Urbanization and InfrastructureChapter 4: Economic Forces and TransformationsChapter 5: State, Polity and Public PolicyChapter 6: Civil Society and Ideological EncountersChapter 7: Foreign Trade, Interventions and PolicyChapter 8: Class Alliances and Political StrugglesChapter 9: Conclusions and Theoretical ImplicationsAppendix: Early Modes of ExistenceGlossaryBibliography