Nationalism in Iran: Updated Through 1978

by Richard W. Cottam

Book Overview

For a brief period in the early 1950s, Iranian nationalism captured the world's attention as, under the leadership of Mohammad Mossadeq, the Iranian National Movement tried to liberate Iran from British imperialism. Regarding nationalism as a major determinant of the attitudes and loyalties of those who embrace it, Cottam analyzes the complex religious, national, and social values at work within Iran and examines, more generally, the turbulence of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822952998
• ISBN13: 9780822952992
• Release Date: June 1979
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"