Frontier Fictions : : Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 / / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet.
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,"...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 line illus. |
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Table of 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