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The state and the subaltern : modernization, society and the state in Turkey and Iran
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"This is the first study to observe the practice of modernization in Turkey and Iran not only from above, by examining the measures adopted by the political regimes of the late Ottomans, Ataturk an...
"This is the first study to observe the practice of modernization in Turkey and Iran not only from above, by examining the measures adopted by the political regimes of the late Ottomans, Ataturk and Reza Shah, but also from below, exploring how different social levels contributed to the drive for modernity. It is a full and thorough analysis of how these societies reacted to reform and change."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Touraj Atabaki, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : I.B. Tauris in association with the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781845113391, 184511339X
- OCLC
- ocm74525313
- Written "as a result of a workshop on 'The Triumphs and Travails of Authoritarian Modernization in Turkey and Iran: Twentieth-Century History From Below', which was organized at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in autumn 2003"--Page xvi.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Touraj Atabaki -- Time, labour-discipline and modernization in Turkey and Iran: some comparative remarks / Touraj Atabaki -- Workers and the state during the late Ottoman empire / Donald Quataert -- Disgruntled guests: Iranian subalterns on the margins of the Tsarist empire / Touraj Atabaki -- The modernization of the empire and the community 'privileges': Greek orthodox responses to the young Turk policies / Vangelis Kechriotis -- Reform from above, resistance from below: the new order and its opponents in Iran, 1927-29 / Stephanie Cronin -- The Ottoman legacy of the Kemalist Republic / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- With or without workers in Reza Shah's Iran: Abadan, May 1929 / Kaveh Bayat -- Sufi reactions against the reforms after Turkey's national struggle: how a nightingale turned into a crow / Hülya Kücük -- A reaction to authoritarian modernization in Turkey: the Menemen incident and the creation and contestation of a myth, 1930-31 / Umut Azak -- Authority and agency: revisiting women's activism during Reza Shah's period / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Polygamy before and after the introduction of the Swiss civil code in Turkey / Nicole A.N.M. van Os
Subjects
- Islamic modernism -- Iran -- Congresses.
- Islamic modernism -- Turkey.
- Islam and politics -- Iran -- Congresses.
- Islam and politics -- Turkey -- Congresses.
- Politics and culture -- Iran -- Congresses.
- Politics and culture -- Turkey -- Congresses.
- Social change -- Iran -- Congresses.
- Social change -- Turkey -- Congresses.
- Iran -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Congresses.
- Turkey -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Congresses.
- Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Congresses.