Persian Farsi collection.

Preface --Note on transliteration -- Prologue : In search of a national covenant -- pt. 1. Constituting a national community (1906-1953) -- 1. Constitutional trial and error -- 2. Pahlavist absolutism -- 3. Restoration of parliamentary politics -- pt. 2. Authoritarian supremacy : consolidation and collapse (1953-1979) -- 4. The trajectories of monarchism -- 5. Revolution : chronicle of an implosion -- 6. The edifice and emplacements of royal rule -- 7. Elective affinities : western imperial interests and authoritarian monarchy -- 8. The architecture of royalist hegemony -- 9. A culture of confrontation -- pt. 3. The eclipse of popular sovereignty : Iran since 1979 -- 10. The unfolding of clerical rule : oligarchy by divine right? -- 11. The culture of politics : the presence and absence of the past -- 12. Predicaments and prospects -- Epilogue : The resilience of modernity -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.