Follows Iran's transformation from a traditional monarchy into a modern nation-state
Acknowledgments
1. Staging the Nation: City, Ceremony, and Legitimation in Late
Qajar Iran
2. Nationalizing Pre-Islamic Iran: The Return of the Archaic and
the Authentication of Modernity
3. The Pedagogic State: Education and Nationalism under Reza
Shah
4. Nation and Memory: Commemorations and the Construction of
National Memory under Reza Shah
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Afshin Marashi is assistant professor of history at California State University at Sacramento.
"Marashi's argument and theoretical approach are original and convincing and his conclusions are sound. This book promises to be a classic on the early formation of Iranian nationalism." Kamran Aghaie, author of Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran "Nationalizing Iran is a very interesting book for a wide readership. Especially original and insightful is its emphasis on continuities underlying what are commonly viewed as ruptures within modern Iranian history, such as the Constitutional Revolution, Reza Shah, Mossadeqh, and the Islamic Revolution of 1979" Sibel Bozdogan, author of Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic
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