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Title Iran in the 20th century : historiography and political culture / edited by Touraj Atabaki
Published 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
Series International library of Iranian studies ; 20
International library of Iranian studies ; 20.
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
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
Analysis Geschichte 1900-2000
Iran History 20th century
Iran History 20th century Historiography
Iran Politics and government 20th century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject HISTORY -- General.
Historiography
Politics and government
Politische Kultur -- Iran -- Geschichte 20. Jh -- Kongressbericht.
SUBJECT Iran -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
Iran -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067903
Iran -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067910
Subject Iran
Iran -- Geschichte 20. Jh -- Kongressbericht.
Iran -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography.
Iran -- History -- 20th century.
Iran -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Iran -- politik och förvaltning -- 1900-talet.
Iran -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Atabaki, Touraj.
Iran Heritage Foundation.
LC no. 2009517429
ISBN 9781441638380
1441638385
9780857713681
085771368X
9780857731876
0857731874
9780755610518
0755610512
Other Titles Iran in the twentieth century