"Iran is a key case in the social scientific literature on
pre-capitalist societies and this book is informed by a detailed
knowledge of its state and agrarian relations."
--Paul Hirst, University of London
Iran is a key case in the social scientific literature on pre-
capitalist societies and this book is informed by a detailed
knowledge of its state and agrarian relations. Vali's critical
assessment of attempts to characterize these institutions is
thorough, accurate and fair. His book is of great intellectual
interest."
--Paul Hirst, Birkbeck College, University of London
Iran before 1906 is a fascinating example of a pre-capitalist
society. Was Iran, in the centuries before the constitutional
revolution of 1906, an essentially feudal society? Or was it a
despotic Asiatic one? In this illuminating portrait of politics and
society in Qajar Iran, Abbas Vali examines these, and other,
questions to develop new concepts for the analysis of state and
social relations in pre-capitalist Iran. The first theoretical
history of Qajar Iran, the volume contains chapters on Marxism and
the historiography of pre-capitalist Iran; economic concepts of
feudal rent; political authority, sovereignty, and property
ownership in medieval political discourse; and the organization of
agrarian production in pre- capitalist Iran.
How can Iranian society prior to the constitutional revolution
of 1906 be characterized? In this book, the first theoretical
history of its kind, Vali takes as his starting point the long-
standing debate among historians and social scientists over this
central issue. He critically assesses the work of those scholars
who have argued that pre-twentieth century Iranian institutions
were essentially feudal, and those who have proposed an alternative
conceptualization of Iran as an Asiatic society. Since this
controversy takes place within the framework of a comparative study
of Iranian and West European histories, the book also examines the
works of high social theory from which it derives - those of Marx,
Weber, Wittfogel, Anderson, Balibar, Hindess and Hirst, Mann, and
others. Finally, Vali uses his critiques to develop new concepts
for the analysis of state and social relations in pre-capitalist
Iran.
General
Imprint: |
New York University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 1993 |
Authors: |
Csaba Varga
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8147-8773-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Law >
Jurisprudence & general issues >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8147-8773-8 |
Barcode: |
9780814787731 |
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