Men of Order
Authoritarian Modernization Under AtatueRk and Reza Shah
1st Edition
Published on 23. July 2004
288 pages
978-0-85771-469-5 (ISBN)
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Nationalism, nation-building and 'defensive modernisation' were the main themes of the 'cultural revolution' underpinning the totalitarian and secular regimes of Ataturk and Reza Shah which replaced the traditional Qajar state of Iran and the long-declining Ottoman Empire.
The authors trace the emergence of Ataturk and Reza Shah through the constitutional revolutions in Iran and the Ottoman Empire and the introduction of European social models, the establishment of dictatorship and of secularist reforms resulting in both cases in totalitarian, nationalist, and quasi-westernised states, and the personality cult of the leader. The legacy of both was a chasm between the elite and the masses and provided the seeding of an Islamic mass-movement.
The authors trace the emergence of Ataturk and Reza Shah through the constitutional revolutions in Iran and the Ottoman Empire and the introduction of European social models, the establishment of dictatorship and of secularist reforms resulting in both cases in totalitarian, nationalist, and quasi-westernised states, and the personality cult of the leader. The legacy of both was a chasm between the elite and the masses and provided the seeding of an Islamic mass-movement.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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978-0-85771-469-5 (9780857714695)
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Men of Order
Authoritarian Modernisation in Turkey and Iran, 1918-1942
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Touraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. Atabaki studied theoretical physics and later history at the University of London and Utrecht University. Following positions at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, he joined Leiden University where he held the Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Atabaki's research encompasses historiography, social history of labour and subaltern studies in Twentieth century Iran, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia. His forthcoming publications are: Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry (Cambridge University Press) and Fallen in the Whirlwind: Life and Time of Iranian Migrant Labour and Political Activists during the Soviet Great Purge (Cambridge University Press). Atabaki's major publications and research projects can be found on:
https://socialhistory.org/en/staff/touraj-atabaki
Atabaki's research encompasses historiography, social history of labour and subaltern studies in Twentieth century Iran, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia. His forthcoming publications are: Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry (Cambridge University Press) and Fallen in the Whirlwind: Life and Time of Iranian Migrant Labour and Political Activists during the Soviet Great Purge (Cambridge University Press). Atabaki's major publications and research projects can be found on:
https://socialhistory.org/en/staff/touraj-atabaki
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter I. State and Society under Reza Shah
- Chapter II. The Caliphate, the Clerics and Republicanism in Turkey and Iran
- Chapter III. New Iran and the Dissolution of Party Politics under Reza Shah
- Chapter IV. Institution Building in the Kernalist Republic: The Role of the People's Party
- Chapter V. Some Views on the Turkish Single-Party Regime During the Inönü Period (1938-45)
- Chapter VI. The Army, Civil Society and the State in Iran: 1921-26
- Chapter VII. The Army and the Founding of the Turkish Republic
- Chapter VIII. Dress Codes for Men in Turkey and Iran
- Chapter IX. Language Reform in Turkey and Iran
- Chapter X. Putting the Record Straight: Vosuq al-Dowleh's Foreign Policy in 1918/19
- Index
