Book contents
- Heroes to Hostages
- The Global Middle East
- Heroes to Hostages
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- Introduction Heroes or Hostages
- Part I Uncertain Overtures (1796–1914)
- Part II Desultory Modernities (1914–1941)
- Part III Cataclysms (1941–1963)
- Part IV A Troubled Middle East (1960–1979)
- Part V The Schism (1978–1988)
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction - Heroes or Hostages
Whose Perspective of US–Iranian Relations?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2023
- Heroes to Hostages
- The Global Middle East
- Heroes to Hostages
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- Introduction Heroes or Hostages
- Part I Uncertain Overtures (1796–1914)
- Part II Desultory Modernities (1914–1941)
- Part III Cataclysms (1941–1963)
- Part IV A Troubled Middle East (1960–1979)
- Part V The Schism (1978–1988)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book brings together diplomatic and social history to narrate the history of US–Iranian relations. It argues that cultural openness and cooperation brought benefits not only to America and Iran, but the region more generally. The rift in US–Iranian relations had to do with more than the Mosaddeq coup or the dramatic shift in Iranian politics after 1979. Iran was confronted with competing nationalisms along its borders that forced Iran to adopt a defensive posture. Finally, America and Iran operated on both elite and non-elite networks that showed the ways in which social divisions affected diplomacy.
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- Heroes to HostagesAmerica and Iran, 1800–1988, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023