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Author Koyagi, Mikiya, author.

Title Iran in motion : mobility, space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway / Mikiya Koyagi.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Building a trans-imperial infrastructure -- The road to salvation -- Nationalizing the railway -- Redirecting mobilities -- Death on the Persian corridor -- Workers of the Victory Bridge -- Traveling citizens.
Summary "In 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway was completed by the Pahlavi state of Iran as the country's first national railway. As a "belated" railway project of the interwar period, the Trans-Iranian Railway is often understood in the context of modernization and centralization undertaken by an authoritarian state of Reza Shah Pahlavi. Instead of retelling the story of Reza Shah, this book tells hitherto unexplored stories of mobile individuals, including European imperial officials, Qajar-era diplomats, tribesmen, migrant laborers, technocrats, railway workers, and diverse groups of travelers. Drawing on newspapers, industry publications, travelogues, memoirs, as well as American, British, Danish, and Iranian archival materials, "Iran in Motion" traces divergent imaginations and practices of mobility from the conception of a Trans-Iranian Railway project during the nineteenth-century global transport revolution to its early years of operation on the eve of Iran's oil nationalization movement in the 1950s. By weaving together various individual experiences, this book considers how the infrastructural megaproject reoriented the flows of people, goods and constantly reshaped local, national, and transnational imaginations of space among mobile individuals"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Railroad travel -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
Railroad travel.
Iran.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Railroads -- Social aspects -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
Railroads -- Social aspects.
Railroads.
Iran -- History -- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.
HISTORY / Middle East / Iran.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Koyagi, Mikiya. Iran in motion Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. 9781503613133 (DLC) 2020034453
ISBN 9781503627673 electronic book
1503627675 electronic book
9781503613133 hardcover
1503613135 (hardcover)