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Frontier Fictions : Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: 2000Edition: Core TextbookDescription: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 10 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400865079
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 955.05 23
LOC classification:
  • DS299
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Major Events -- Glossary -- Introduction. Frontier Fictions -- 1. A Manifest Destiny Diverted, 1804-1896 -- 2. Limning the Landscape: Geographical Depictions of the Homeland, 1850s-1896 -- 3. From Riches to Ruins: The Political Economy of Frontiers, 1897-1906 -- 4. Political Parables: Iran's Frontier Crucible, 1906-1914 -- 5. Coercing Camaraderie: The War, the Military, and the Myth of Riza Khan, 1914-1926 -- 6. Parenting Little Patriots: Domesticating the Homeland, 1921-1926 -- Conclusion. What's in a Name? From Persia to Iran, 1926-1946 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 "frontier fictions," 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 "imagined community" 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Major Events -- Glossary -- Introduction. Frontier Fictions -- 1. A Manifest Destiny Diverted, 1804-1896 -- 2. Limning the Landscape: Geographical Depictions of the Homeland, 1850s-1896 -- 3. From Riches to Ruins: The Political Economy of Frontiers, 1897-1906 -- 4. Political Parables: Iran's Frontier Crucible, 1906-1914 -- 5. Coercing Camaraderie: The War, the Military, and the Myth of Riza Khan, 1914-1926 -- 6. Parenting Little Patriots: Domesticating the Homeland, 1921-1926 -- Conclusion. What's in a Name? From Persia to Iran, 1926-1946 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 "frontier fictions," 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 "imagined community" 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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