Pre-Capitalist Iran: A Theoretical History

by Abbas Vali

Examines the politics and economics of Iran before the twentieth century

Iran before 1906 is a fascinating example of a pre-capitalist society. Was Iran, in the centuries before the constitutional revolution of 1906, an essentially feudal society? Or was it a despotic Asiatic one? In this illuminating portrait of politics and society in Qajar Iran, Abbas Vali examines these, and other, questions to develop new concepts for the analysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814787738
• ISBN13: 9780814787731
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"