Description: Between roughly 1870 and 1940, Iran's traditional monarchy was forged into a modern nation-state. Marishi explores the changes that made possible this tranformation of Iran into a social abstraction in which notions of state, society, and culture converged. Afshin Marashi is assistant professor history, California State University in Sacramento.
Review Quotes:
"[Marashi's] study is an accessible and meaningful contribution to the history of late Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran, and can be read profitably by scholars and students alike. And, like all the best academic research, it reminds us how much more there is to learn."
-- "American Historical Review"