| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Patronage, translation, and the printing of history -- Schools, citizenship, and revolution -- The state, education, and the standardization of history -- The women's movement, the press, and exemplary biographies -- Writing the local into the national -- A nation of poets |
| Summary |
Iranian history was long told through a variety of stories and legend, tribal lore and genealogies, and tales of the prophets. But in the late nineteenth century, new institutions emerged to produce and circulate a coherent history that fundamentally reshaped these fragmented narratives and dynastic storylines. Farzin Vejdani investigates this transformation to show how cultural institutions and a growing public-sphere affected history-writing, and how in turn this writing defined Iranian nationalism. Interactions between the state and a cross-section of Iranian society-scholars, schoolteacher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nationalism and historiography -- Iran
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Historiography -- Political aspects -- Iran
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Iran.
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Historiography
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Historiography -- Political aspects
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Nationalism and historiography
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Education
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- History -- Study and teaching
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Iran -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Iran
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804792813 |
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080479281X |
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