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100 _aAmanat, Abbas
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245 _aIran : a modern history
260 _bYale University Press
_aLondon
_c2017
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505 _aContents Preface ix Introduction 1 PART I A SHI'I EMPIRE 31 ONE Shi'ism and the Safavid Revolution (1501-1588) 33 TWO The Age of'Abbas I and the Shaping of the Safavid Empire (1588-1666) 76 THREE The Demise of the Safavid Order and the Unhappy Interregnums (1666-1797) 126 PART II RESHAPING OF THE GUARDED DOMAINS 177 FouR The Making of the Qajar Era (1797-1852) 179 FIvE Naser al-Din Shah and Maintaining a Fragile Balance (1848-1896) 247 SIx The Constitutional Revolution : Road to a Plural Modernity (1905-1911) 315 PART I II A NATION RECAST 387 SEvEN The Great War and the Rise of Reza Khan (1914-1925) 389 EIGHT Reza Shah and the Pahlavi Order (1925-1941) 446 NINE Chaotic Democracy, Oil Nationalization, and Denied Hopes (1941-1953) 502 TEN The White Revolution and Its Opponents (1953-1963) 562 ELEVEN Development, Disarray, and Discontent (1963-1977) 617 TwELVE Cultures of Authority and Cultures of Dissent 663 PART IV A CONTESTED REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC 701 THIRTEEN The Making of the Islamic Revolution (1977-1979) 703 FOURTEEN The Guardian Jurist and His Advocates 743 FIFTEEN Consolidation of the Islamic Republic (1979-1984) 773 SIX T E EN Facing the Foe : The Hostage Crisis, the Iraq-Iran War, and the Mtermath (1979-1989) 82o sEVENTEEN Society and Culture under the Islamic Republic 868 Epilogue 897 Notes 909 Further Readings 915 Index 945 Plates follow page 176
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