Economic Modernisation of Iran, 1953–1968

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Architects, Agents, and Unwitting Thwarters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

649 kr

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In 1953, Iran was at loggerheads with the US and UK, after Prime Minister Mossadeq nationalised Iran’s oil reserves. By 1968, under the autocratic rule of the Shah, Iran was a booming export economy, benefiting from high oil prices and consumer demand. It had unambiguously become a modern industrial economy. Sifting through primary and secondary sources, Ali Rahnema charts Iran’s progress in this vital fifteen-year period. He asks, who can claim the credit? And who bears the blame for its critical failures?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-11-20
Mått153 x 234 x 37 mm
Vikt667 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagOneworld Publications
ISBN9781836430988

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'This is a ground-breaking study of the economic dimension of the modernisation of Iran in the second Pahlavi period. Despite its fundamental importance, the economic history of Iran has, until now, been largely eclipsed by a concentration on politics and ideology. With his book Ali Rahnema, using a finely granular analysis, has taken this Cinderella of the social sciences and restored it to its true centrality, placing it at the heart of the fifteen key years between the coup of 1953 and the beginning of the fourth Five-Year Plan in 1968. The book is important and original, offers new challenges to scholarship on modern Iran, and will undoubtedly become a classical account of its subject.' Stephanie Cronin, author of Social Histories of Iran