FRAGILE RESISTANCE : social transformation in iran from 1500 to the revolution.
This book analyzes the processes of social transformation in Iran from the height of the country's power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries under the Safavid dynasty to the aftermath of the startling revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Diagrams; Acknowledgments; Map of Iran; Introduction; 1 A Framework for the Study of Social Change in Iran; Introduction; Theories of Underdevelopment; State and Culture in Social Change; A Synthetic Framework; Notes; PART ONE SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN PRE-CAPITALIST IRAN, 1500-1800; 2 The Iranian Social Formation, circa 1630; The Nature of the State; The Economic Structure of Iran in the 1620s; International Trade and Relations with the West through 1630; The Social Structure of Pre-Capitalist Iran.
- Ideological and Political Conceptions in Safavid IranNotes; 3 Social Change in Iran from 1500 to 1800; Types of Social Change under the Safavids, 1500-1722; The Long Fall of the Safavids; Iran under the Afghans, 1722-1729; Iran under Nadir Shah, 1729-1747; Iran under Karim Khan Zand, 1750-1779; Iran's External Relations, 1747-1800; The Rise of the Qajar Dynasty; Notes; Conclusion to Part One: The Significance of the Safavid Period and the Eighteenth Century; PART TWO SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN QAJAR IRAN, 1800-1925.
- 4 Crossing the Threshold of Dependence: The Iranian Social Formation from 1800 to 1914External Political and Economic Relations; Internal Social and Economic Development; The State; Conclusions: The Nature of Dependency; Notes; 5 Reform, Rebellion, Revolution, Coup: Social Movements in Qajar Iran; Succession Struggles and Uprisings, 1800-1850: From Traditional to Transitional Forms of Protest; Reform Efforts from 1800 to the 1880s: The Inadequacy of the State's Response; The Tobacco Rebellion, 1890-1892: A Turning Point; The Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1911: An Opportunity Missed.
- Resolution from Above"": World War I and Reza Khan's Rise to Power, 1914-1925Notes; Conclusion to Part Two: The Theoretical Significance of the Qajar Period; PART THREE SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN PAHLAVI IRAN AND AFTER, 1925-1991; 6 State, Society, and Economy in the Reza Shah Period, 1925-1941: The Compression of Social Forces; Reza Shah's State: Military Autocracy, Modernization, and Westernization; Economy and Class Structure; Iran in the World-System of the 1930s; Social Movements and External Intervention in the Reza Shah Period; Notes.
- 7 Democratization, Separatism, Nationalization, Coup: Social Movements from 1941 to 1953Iran in World War II; Social Movements in Azarbaijan and Kurdistan, 1945-1946; The Oil Nationalization Movement, 1951-1953; Conclusions: A Second Opportunity Missed; Notes; 8 The New Situation of Dependency: Dependent Capitalist Development under Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, 1953-1977; The Pahlavi State: Monarchic Dictatorship and Oil Rents; The Economy and Class Structure; Iran in the World-System: Toward the Semiperiphery?; Comparisons, Conclusions; Notes.