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Social Histories of Iran - Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East (Paperback, New Ed)
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Social Histories of Iran - Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East (Paperback, New Ed)
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Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated
by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological
nationalism. In this book, Stephanie Cronin problematizes both of
these narratives. Its attention is firmly fixed on subaltern social
groups: the 'dangerous classes' and their constructed contrast with
the new and avowedly modern bourgeois elite created by the infant
Pahlavi state; the hungry poor pitted against the deregulation and
globalization of the late nineteenth century Iranian economy; rural
criminals of every variety, bandits, smugglers and pirates, and the
profoundly ambiguous attitudes towards them of the communities from
which they came. In foregrounding these groups, the book also seeks
to move beyond a narrow national context, demonstrating, through a
series of case-studies, the explanatory power of global,
transnational and comparative approaches to the study of the social
history of the Middle East.
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