Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Note on Transliteration xiv
5. Prologue: In Search of a National Covenant 1
6. Part I. Constituting a National Community (1906–1953)
7. 1. Constitutional Trial and Error 17
8. 2. Pahlavist Absolutism 69
9. 3. Restoration of Parliamentary Politics 118
10. Part II. Authoritarian Supremacy: Consolidation and Collapse (1953–1979)
11. 4. The Trajectories of Monarchism 155
12. 5. Revolution: Chronicle of an Implosion 201
13. 6. The Edifice and Emplacements of Royal Rule 224
14. 7. Elective Affinities: Western Imperial Interests and Authoritarian Monarchy 258
15. 8. The Architecture of Royalist Hegemony 277
16. 9. A Culture of Confrontation 307
17. Part III. The Eclipse of Popular Sovereignty: Iran since 1979
18. 10. The Unfolding of Clerical Rule: Oligarchy by Divine Right? 355
19. 11. The Culture of Politics: The Presence and Absence of the Past 412
20. 12. Predicaments and Prospects 423
21. Epilogue: The Resilience of Modernity 437
22. Abbreviations 453
23. Notes 455
24. Index 481