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Title Iran in the 20th century : historiography and political culture / edited by Touraj Atabaki.

Publication Info. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundaton, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series International library of Iranian studies ; 20
International library of Iranian studies ; 20.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Historiography of twentieth century Iran : memory, amnesia and invention / Touraj Atabaki -- Historiography and crafting Iranian national identity / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- Memory and amnesia in the historiography of the Constitutional Revolution / Abbas Amanat -- Disintegrating the "discourse of disintegration' : some reflections on the historiography of the late Qajar period and Iranian Cultural memory / Oliver Bast -- Agency and subjectivity in Iranian national historiography / Touraj Atabaki -- Nation's poet : Ferdowsi and the Iranian national imagination / Afshin Marashi -- Pahlavi school of historiography on the Pahlavi era / Kaveh Bayat -- Architectural historiography 1921-42 / Kamran Safamanesh -- Paranoid style in Iranian historiography / Houchang E. Chehabi -- Women, gender, and sexuality in historiography of modern Iran / Mana Kia, Afsaneh Najmabadi, and Sima Shakhsari -- Marxism, historiography and historical consciousness in modern Iran : a preliminary study / Afshin Matin-asgari -- Islamist historiography in post-revolutionary Iran / Kamran Scot Aghaie.
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Summary Political upheaval has marked Iran's history throughout the twentieth century. Wars, revolutions, coups and the impact of modernism have shaped Iran's historiography, as they have the country's history. Originally based on oral and written sources, which underpinned traditional genealogical and dynastic history, Iran's historiography was transformed in the early 20th century with the development of a 'new' school of presenting history. Here emphasis shifted from the anecdotal story-telling genre to social, political, economic, cultural and religious history-writing. A new understanding of the.
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Subject Iran -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography.
Iran.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Historiography.
Iran -- History -- 20th century.
Iran -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Atabaki, Touraj.
Iran Heritage Foundation.
Added Title Iran in the twentieth century
Other Form: Print version: Iran in the 20th century. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundaton, 2009 9781845119621 (DLC) 2009517429 (OCoLC)311761253
ISBN 9781441638380 (electronic book)
1441638385 (electronic book)
9780857713681
085771368X
9780857731876
0857731874
9781845119621 (hardback)
1845119622 (hardback)
9780755610518 (online)
0755610512
Standard No. 3607767