Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Age of Aryamehr

Late Pahlavi Iran and Its Global Entanglements

Av Roham Alvandi, Roham Alvandi

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The reign of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), marked the high-point of Iran's global interconnectedness. Never before, nor ever since, have Iranians felt the impact of global political, social, economic, and cultural forces so intimately in their national and daily lives, nor have Iranian actors played such an important global role, on battlefields, barricades, and in board rooms far beyond Iran's borders. Modern Iran is in many ways the product of the global interconnectedness that dramatically accelerated in the 1960s and 1970s. From the launch of the Shah's White Revolution in 1963 to his overthrow in the popular Revolution of 1978-79, Iran experienced the longest period of sustained economic growththat the country had ever experienced. The shift in power from oil consumer to oil producers fuelled the modernisation aspirations of a generation of Iranians, in the context of competing capitalist and Marxist models of development. The history of Pahlavi Iran has traditionally been written as prologue to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. These histories largely locate thepolitical, social and cultural origins of the revolution firmly within a national context, into which global actors intruded and Iranian actors retreated. While engaging with this national narrative, this volume is concerned with Iran's place in the global history of the 1960s and 1970s. It examines and highlights the transnational threads that connected Pahlavi Iranto the world, from global traffic in modern art and narcotics, to the embrace of American social science by Iranian technocrats and the encounter of European intellectuals with the Iranian Revolution. In doing so, this volume seeks to write Pahlavi Iran into the global history of the 1960s and 1970s, when Iran mattered far beyond its borders.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2018-11-12
Mått: 159 x 238 x 28 mm
Vikt: 564 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Gingko-St Andrews Series
Antal sidor: 380
Förlag: GINGKO
ISBN: 9781909942189

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Roham Alvandi is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the author of Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War.

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‘Roham Alvandi’s edited volume brings together valuable studies on Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s reign in a transnational context. What makes this compendium of essays even more significant is [the fact that] the contributors to this volume re-examine the development of Iranian culture and politics without being swayed by the final episode, the revolution’— Professor Touraj Atabaki, Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam‘This impressive collection of essays offers a detailed study of the last three decades of Mohammad Reza Shah’s rule in Iran, and it is as interesting as it is useful. It should be used in both undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of twentieth-century Iran’— Dr Homa Katouzian, Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford‘This volume brings together a diverse range of innovative and insightful surveys of Iran’s developmental state together with its achievements and errors, and also its transnational connections, during the late Pahlavi period’— Dr Ali Gheissari, Professor of History, University of San Diego, and Editor-in-Chief of Iranian Studies‘This outstanding collection of articles brings together key aspects of the late shah’s rule, aptly and ironically titled The Age of Aryamehr. The articles offer fresh perspectives on Iranian history in an age of monarchic grandiosity and domestic turmoil, an era whose cultural and social significance has received less attention than its political dimensions. Written by some of the leading historians in the field, this compilation will be a very useful and welcome guide for scholars and students of Iranian society and culture’— Professor Firoozeh Kashani–Sabet, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania“Alvandi issues a call for scholars ‘to escape the boundaries of national history and examine the international and transnational threads that connected Iran to the world.’ The Age of Aryamehr succeeds in contributing to the ‘globalisation of the historiography of modern Iran’ and reveals the emerging interpretive schisms in that historiography.”— Matthew Shannon, Journal of Iranian Studies

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