The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971
Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran
In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they were regaled to sumptuous banquets and entertainment. Critical journalists in Western Europe and North America lambasted the Shah for holding such a decadent event while many of his people lived in poverty. Due to the overwhelmingly negative press at the time, the event is still today widely remembered as a catastrophic failure.It is even said by many to have sparked the unrest that eventually l…
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- ISBN: 978-1-83860-418-9
- EAN: 9781838604189
- Produktnummer: 34574924
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 13'761 KB
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Robert Steele is currently the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Iranian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. USA. He holds a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter, UK.
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