ABSTRACT
This book analyzes the processes of social transformation in Iran from the height of the country's power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries under the Safavid dynasty to the aftermath of the startling revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|87 pages
Social Structure and Social Change in Pre-Capitalist Iran, 1500–1800
part Two|111 pages
Social Structure and Social Change in Qajar Iran, 1800–1925
part Three|204 pages
Social Structure and Social Change in Pahlavi Iran and After, 1925–1991
