Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency.
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Release
November 15, 2010
ISBN
0230537944
ISBN 13
9780230537941
Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran: Opposition, Protest and Revolt, 1921-1941
Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency.