The Age of Aryamehr: Late Pahlavi Iran and Its Global Entanglements - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914983289 ISBN 13 : 9781914983283

Editeur : GINGKO, 2024

Synopsis

Fully incorporates Pahlavi Iran into the global history of the 1960s and '70s, when Iran mattered far beyond its borders.

The reign of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-79), marked the high point of Iran's global interconnectedness. Never before had Iranians felt the impact of global political, social, economic, and cultural forces so intimately in their national and daily lives, nor had Iranian actors played such an important global role - on battlefields, barricades, and in board rooms far beyond Iran's borders. Iranian intellectuals, technocrats, politicians, workers, artists, and students alike were influenced by the global ideas, movements, markets, and conflicts that they also helped to shape.

From the launch of the Shah's White Revolution in 1963 to his overthrow in the popular revolution of 1978-79, Iran saw the longest period of sustained economic growth that the country had ever experienced. An entire generation took its cue from the shift from oil consumption to oil production to dream of, and aspire to, a modernized Iran, and the history of Iran in this period has tended to be presented as a prologue to the revolution. Those histories usually locate the political, social, and cultural origins of the revolution firmly within a national context, into which global actors intruded as Iranian actors retreated. While engaging with that national narrative, this volume is concerned with Iran's place in the global history of the 1960s and '70s. It examines and highlights the transnational threads that connected Pahlavi Iran to the world, from global traffic in modern art and narcotics to the embrace of American social science by Iranian technocrats and the encounter of European intellectuals with the Iranian Revolution.

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À propos de l?auteur

Roham Alvandi is Associate Professor of International History and Director of the IDEAS Cold War Studies Project at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: GINGKO
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914983289
• ISBN 13: 9781914983283
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 291
• Éditeur: Alvandi Roham
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