Modern Iran

Part I. Iran in the "long nineteenth century": 1785-1911 -- Qajar rule, society, and the great powers -- Reforms, economic concessions, and expressions of dissent -- Constitution and constitutionalism: debates and developments -- Part II. 1911-1978 -- War, coup d'état, hopes, and disillusionment -- State-building, the politics of modernization, and its discontents -- Intellectuals, Islam, and the search for "cultural authenticity" -- Part III. The Iranian Revolution: 1978-1979 -- The months leading to the 1979 Revolution -- Part Iv. Iran today: 1979 to the present -- Defining the Islamic Republic -- Voices of reform and societal transformations -- The tenth presidential elections and their aftermath..

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