Abstract
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/187471610X505933 Journal of Persianate Studies 3 (2010) 29-30 brill.nl/jps Introduction While the study of Iranian history in the second half of the nineteenth cen- tury is handicapped by its focus on the impact of the West or Western ideas, the conventional wisdom on the modernization of Iran in the first half of the twentieth century suffers from two related shortcomings: an unreasonable disjuncture between the constitutional period (1906-21) and the reign of Rezā Shah Pahlavi (1925-41), and inordinate attention to political aspects of modernization in the latter period at the expense of the
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