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Author Afary, Janet.

Title The Iranian constitutional revolution, 1906-1911 : grassroots democracy, social democracy & the origins of feminism / Janet Afary
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xxi, 448 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series The history and society of the modern Middle East
History and society of the modern Middle East series.
Contents 1. From Dependency to Resistance -- 2. Revolution in the Air -- 3. The First National Assembly, the Urban Councils, and the Iranian Organization of Social Democrats, 1906-1907 -- 4. Clericalism or Constitutionalism? The Clash Over the Supplementary Constitutional Laws -- 5. Journalism, Satire, and Revolution: Exposing the Conservative Clerics, Denouncing the Western Powers -- 6. Peasants, Artisans, and Fishermen: From Land Reform and Parliamentary Opposition to Town and Village Councils -- 7. The Women's Councils and the Origins of the Women's Movement in Iran -- 8. The Civil War in Azerbaijan -- 9. International and Multiethnic Solidarity: The Revolutionary Forces Reconquer Tehran -- 10. The Second National Assembly and the Formation of Political Parties: The Democrat Party and Its Organ, Iran-i Naw -- 11. Assassination, Exile, and Imperialist Pressures: The Confrontation at Atabak Park -- 12. Imperialist Intervention: The "Strangling of Persia"
Notes Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan, 1991
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-416) and index
Subject Constitutional history -- Iran.
Democracy -- Iran.
Feminism -- Iran.
Islam and state -- Iran.
SUBJECT Iran -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067890
Iran -- History -- 1905-1911. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067904
Iran -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067909
LC no. 95050433
ISBN 0231103506 (alk. paper)
0231103514 (paperback: alk. paper)