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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Preface xvii
6. In Conversation with Ervand Abrahamian 1
7. A Bibliography of Ervand Abrahamian 18
8. PART I IRAN IN THE WORLD
9. 1 The 1907 Anglo-Russian Agreement: A Postscript 31
10. 2 Mohammad Mosaddeq and the ‘Standard of Civilisation’ 43
11. 3 The Demise of the Anglo-Iranian Agreement of 1919 69
12. PART II TRANSITIONS
13. 4 From Sardar Sepah to Reza Shah: The Illegality of Pahlavi Reign 107
14. 5 ‘Abadan in Fire and Blood!’: The Role of the Crowd in the History of the Nationalisation of the Iranian Oil Industry 120
15. 6 Did Progressive Muslims Pave the Way for the Hegemony of ‘Khomeinism’? Public Religion and the 1979 Revolution 141
16. 7 Second Supreme Swapping: Prospects for Leadership Change in Iran 166
17. PART III POLITICS
18. 8 The Tudeh Party of Iran’s Attitude towards Mohammad Mosaddeq 193
19. 9 The Shadow of Mosaddeq: History, Memory and the Construction of a Myth 229
20. 10 Peykār Organisation: History, Contexts, Transformations, Challenges 254
21. PART IV CULTURE AND SOCIETY
22. 11 Dialogue in Qānun: Theatrical Reporting as a Political Device 279
23. 12 ‘We became plucked’: Reza Shah’s Education Policy and the Armenian Community of Iran 308
24. 13 Fātemeh Sayyāh: Forgotten Scholar, Public Intellectual and Women’s Rights Advocate 334
25. PART V LIFE IN THE CITY
26. 14 The Poor as a Problem of Governance: Mashhad Poorhouse in 1939 359
27. 15 Leisure Architecture and the Aesthetics of the Pahlavi ‘Modern Middle Class’ 378
28. 16 The Reinvention of Mahallehs in Post-revolutionary Tehran: Spatial Reconfiguration and Political Control 399
29. Index 426