Heroes to Hostages
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-32209-6 (ISBN)
It is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went awry. With careful attention to social and cultural as well as diplomatic developments, Kashani-Sabet shows that the rift did not originate in flashpoints of crisis, like the 1953 coup or the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but was instead long in the making. Drawing from a wealth of English and Persian-language sources, many of which were previously unavailable or unacknowledged, this book considers the relationship from the vantage point of Iranian society and the experiences of an evolving Iran that strived to accommodate American and great power politics. Following these two nations through wars, decolonization, and revolution, Kashani-Sabet presents an invaluable history of a diplomatic rivalry that informs geopolitics to this day.
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (1999), which has been translated to Persian and Turkish. Excerpts from this work informed an art exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan (Yarat Centre, 2019). Kashani-Sabet subsequently published Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (2011), which won the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award. Kashani-Sabet is also the author of a novel, Martyrdom Street (2010), and a co-edited volume, Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage (2014).
Preface; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part I. Uncertain Overtures (1796-1914): 1. Pluralist Persia: a land of many religions; 2. The portals of Persepolis: Persian antiquity and American curiosity; 3. A martyr and many masters: America and Iranian constitutionalism; Part II. Desultory Mordernities (1914-1941): 4. Iran in transition: war, famine, and recovery, 1914-1925; 5. Flirting with secular modernity: America and social change in Iran, 1925-1939; 6. Investing in Iran: frontiers and foreign competition, 1925-1939; Part III. Cataclysms (1941-1963): 7. Unwelcome visitors: the occupation of Iran during World War II; 8. Subverting sovereignty: the politics of oil; 9. Roots of revenge: cultural flux and specters of violence; Part IV. A Troubled Middle East (1960-1979): 10. The anti-Aryan moment: decolonization, race, and human rights; 11. A political minefield: Iran between Israel and pan-Arabism; 12. The Shah's fight for hegemony: from the Persian Gulf to the Vietnam war; Part V. The Schism (1978-1988): 13. The picketers come of age: from civil disobedience to armed protest; 14. Burning bridges: revolution and the rift in US-Iranian relations; 15. Neither heroes nor hostages.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Global Middle East |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 780 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-32209-5 / 1009322095 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-32209-6 / 9781009322096 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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