Frontier Fictions (eBook)

Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (Autor)

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2014
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6507-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "e;frontier fictions,"e; or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often fluctuating borders and the conflicts surrounding them, played a dominant role in defining the nation. On these borderlands, new ideas of citizenship and nationality were unleashed, refining older ideas of ethnicity. Kashani-Sabet maintains that land-based conceptions of countries existed before the advent of the modern nation-state. Her focus on geography enables her to explore and document fully a wide range of aspects of modern citizenship in Iran, including love of homeland, the hegemony of the Persian language, and widespread interest in archaeology, travel, and map-making. While many historians have focused on the concept of the "e;imagined community"e; in their explanations of the rise of nationalism, Kashani-Sabet is able to complement this perspective with a very tangible explanation of what connects people to a specific place. Her approach is intended to enrich our understanding not only of Iranian nationalism, but also of nationalism everywhere.

Autor

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet was born in Tehran, Iran. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Yale University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 10 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Abbas Mirza • activism • Afghanistan • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Ahmad Kasravi • Amir Kabir • Annexation • arabs • Armenians • aryan • Azerbaijanis • Bahrain • Balochistan, Pakistan • Cartography • Casus belli • central government • Citizenship • Civilization • civil service • Constitutionalism • Constitutionalist (UK) • Culture of Iran • Curriculum • despotism • Disenchantment • Epithet • Fereydun • Geography of Iran • Governance • Gratitude • Herat • Historiography • Ideology • Illustration • imperialism • Iranian Nationalism • Iranian Peoples • Islam • Karbala • Khuzestan Province • Kirmani • Kirman (Sasanian province) • Kurds • Language reform • Literature • Majlis • Manifest Destiny • militarization • Mirza • Modernity • Mushir • narrative • Nasir al-Din • Nationality • Nationalization • nation state • newspaper • Nusrat • of education • Ottoman Empire • Patriotism • Persianization • Persian Language • Persian mythology • Persian people • Politician • Politics • Politics of Iran • power politics • Qajar Dynasty • Qajars (tribe) • reign • Republicanism • Reza Shah • rhetoric • Ruler • russians • Rustam (Haqqani network) • Safavid Dynasty • sasanian empire • sayyid • separatism • Shahnameh • Sheikh • sistan • Sovereignty • Suzerainty • Tabriz • Tax • Textbook • The Other Hand • treatise • Treaty • Turkistan (city) • war • warfare • Wealth • Writing • Yazd • Zoroastrianism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6507-7 / 1400865077
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6507-9 / 9781400865079