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041 _aeng
050 0 0 _aJQ1805
_b.S64 2011
090 _aJQ1805 .S64 2011
100 1 _aSohrabi, Nader,
_d1961-
_9100462
245 1 0 _aRevolution and constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran /
_cNader Sohrabi.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _aviii, 447 pages ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 0 _a"In his book on two constitutional revolutions in the Middle East in the early twentieth century, Nader Sohrabi considers global diffusion of institutions and ideas, their regional and local reworking, and the long-term consequences of adaptations. He delves into historic reasons for greater resilience of democratic institutions in Turkey as compared to Iran. Arguing that revolutions are time-bound phenomena whose forms follow global models in vogue at particular historical junctures, he challenges the ahistoric and purely local understanding of them. Furthermore, he argues that macro-structural preconditions alone cannot explain the occurrence of revolutions, but global waves, contingent events, and intervention of agency work together to bring them about in competition with other possible outcomes. To establish these points, the book draws on a wide array of archival and primary sources that afford a minute look at revolutions, unfolding; these are examined against the backdrop of the differing institutional settings and middle classes in the Ottoman Empire and Iran and their similarly financially strapped states that faced strong geo-political challenges"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 _aConstitutional history
_zIran
_9100465
650 0 _aConstitutional history
_zTurkey
_915316
650 0 _aComparative government
_964
650 0 _aRevolutions
_zTurkey
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_9100464
650 0 _aRevolutions
_zIran
_xHistory
_y20th century
_9100463
651 0 _aIran
_xPolitics and government
_y1905-1911
_9100466
651 0 _aTurkey
_xPolitics and government
_y1878-1909
_923576
651 0 _aTurkey
_xPolitics and government
_y1909-1918
_984650
942 _cBK