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Recasting Iranian Modernity International Relations and Social Change
By Kamran Matin
Copyright 2013
222 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran’s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has international relations at its ontological core. This will enable a conception of history in which... Read more
1. Introduction: Supplanting Eruocentrism 2. The Nomadic-Sedentary Synthesis: Amalgamated State-formations, 1501-1722 3. The Revolution of Backwardness: the Constitutional Revolution 1906-1911 4. Nationless Nationalisms: Reza Shah's Reforms, Mosaddeq's Revolt, 1921-1953 5. The Marriage of the Cold War and Oil: The Birth of the Citizen-Subject and the Revolution, 1962-1979 6. An Iranian Janus: the Making of Revolutionary Islam 7. Conclusion: Uneven and Combined Development and Historical Materialism
Biography
Kamran Matin is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex.
