Pivot Of The Universe - Hardcover

Amanat, Abbas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860640974 ISBN 13: 9781860640971

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 1997

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When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had sat on the Peacock Throne for nearly half a century. In this book, the first in English about Nasir al-Din Shah, Abbas Amanat gives us both a biography of the man and an analysis of the institution of monarchy in modern Iran. Amanat poses a fundamental question: how did monarchy, the center-piece of an ancient political order, withstand and adjust to the challenges of modern times, both at home and abroad? Nasir al-Din Shah's life and career, his upbringing and personality, and his political conduct provide remarkable material for answering this question. By examining the way Nasir al-Din Shah was transformed from an insecure crown prince and later an erratic boy-king in the 1840s and 50s into a ruler with substantial control over his government and foreign policy in the 1860s and beyond, Amanat explores a pattern in the consolidation of traditional monarchies as they accommodated themselves to the forces of modernity.

About the Author:

Abbas Amanat is Professor of History at Yale University.  His publications include Resurrection and Renewal: the Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850 and he is the co-editor of Imagining the End (I.B.Tauris).

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1860640974
• ISBN 13: 9781860640971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288