Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace

by Arang Keshavarzian

Book Overview

The Tehran Bazaar has always been central to the Iranian economy and indeed, to the Iranian urban experience. Arang Keshavarzian's fascinating book compares the economics and politics of the marketplace under the Pahlavis, who sought to undermine it in the drive for modernisation and under the subsequent revolutionary regime, which came to power with a mandate to preserve the bazaar as an 'Islamic' institution. The outcomes of their respective policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521103304
• ISBN13: 9780521103305
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"