Nationalizing Iran
Subtitle: culture, power, and the state, 1870-1940
By: Afshin Marashi.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Studies in modernity and national identity
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780295987996; 9780295988207
Subjects: Nationalism -- Iran.; Education and state -- Iran -- History.; Iran -- History -- Pahlavi dynasty, 1925-1979.; Iran -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-180) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Staging the nation : city, ceremony, and legitimation in late Qajar Iran; value: Nationalizing pre-Islamic Iran : the return of the archaic and the authentication of modernity; value: The pedagogic state : education and nationalism under Reza Shah; value: Nation and memory : commemorations and the construction of national memory under Reza Shah; value: Conclusion.