By Farzin Vejdani
This enlightening e-book attracts on formerly unexamined basic sources—including histories, tuition curricula, pedagogical fabrics, periodicals, and memoirs—to reveal how the social destinations of historians writ extensively encouraged their interpretations of the previous. The relative autonomy of those historians had a right away touching on no matter if historical past upheld the established order or turned an software for radical swap, and the writing of historical past turned primary to debates on social and political reform, the position of ladies in society, and the standards for citizenship and nationality. eventually, this ebook lines how contending visions of Iranian historical past have been more and more unified as a centralized Iranian kingdom emerged within the early 20th century.