It is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went awry...

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1. Verfasser:	Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Global Middle East (Cambridge, England)
Schlagworte:	Diplomatie Soziale Situation Kulturaustausch United States / Foreign relations / Iran Iran / Foreign relations / United States Iran / History / 19h century Iran / History / 20th century Iran
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Zusammenfassung:	It is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went awry. With careful attention to social and cultural as well as diplomatic developments, Kashani-Sabet shows that the rift did not originate in flashpoints of crisis, like the 1953 coup or the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but was instead long in the making. Drawing from a wealth of English and Persian-language sources, many of which were previously unavailable or unacknowledged, this book considers the relationship from the vantage point of Iranian society and the experiences of an evolving Iran that strived to accommodate American and great power politics. Following these two nations through wars, decolonization, and revolution, Kashani-Sabet presents an invaluable history of a diplomatic rivalry that informs geopolitics to this day
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Aug 2023) Part One: Uncertain Overtures (1796-1914) -- Pluralist Persia: A Land of Many Religions -- The Portals of Persepolis: Persian Antiquity and American Curiosity -- A Martyr and Many Masters: America and Iranian Constitutionalism -- Part Two: Desultory Modernities (1914-1941) -- Iran in Transition: War, Famine, and Recovery, 1914- -- Flirting with Secular Modernity: America and Social Change in Iran, 1925- -- Investing in Iran: Frontiers and Foreign Competition, 1925- -- Part Three: Cataclysms (1941-1963) -- Unwelcome Visitors: The Occupation of Iran during World War II -- Subverting Sovereignty: The Politics of Oil -- Roots of Revenge: Cultural Flux and Specters of Violence -- Part Four: A Troubled Middle East (1960-1979) -- The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization, Race, and Human Rights -- A Political Minefield: Iran Between Israel and Pan-Arabism -- The Shah's Fight for Hegemony: From the Persian Gulf to the Vietnam War -- Part Five: The Schism (1978-1988) -- The Picketers Come of Age: From Civil Disobedience to Armed Protest -- Burning Bridges: Revolution and the Rift in US-Iranian Relations -- Neither Heroes nor Hostages
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 433 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009322119
DOI:	10.1017/9781009322119