Iran
Subtitle: a people interrupted
By: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781595580597; 9781595583338
Subjects: History
Description: "Hamid Dabashi traces the full sweep of Iran's history over the past two centuries and gives us an unprecedented analysis of key events, cultural trends, and political developments up to the collapse of the reform movement and the emergence of the new and combative presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On nations without borders; title: The dawn of colonial modernity; title: A constitutional revolution; title: The Pahlavis; title: An Islamic revolution; title: To reconstruct and reform; title: The end of Islamic ideology.