Marashi (history, California State U-Sacramento) describes the gradual transformation of Iran into a modern state, emphasizing not the accouterments such as a bureaucracy and military, but the social,
In Nationalizing Iran, Afshin Marashi explores the changes that made possible this transformation of Iran into a social abstraction in which notions of state, society, and culture converged. He follow
While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length study—until now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped this
