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Follows Iran's transformation from a traditional monarchy into a modern nation-state

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Afshin Marashi is assistant professor of history at California State University at Sacramento.

Reviews

"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