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Capitalism as a Concept of Difference in the Historiography of Iran

Iranian studies, 2023-04, Vol.56 (2), p.391-394 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies ;ISSN: 0021-0862 ;EISSN: 1475-4819 ;DOI: 10.1017/irn.2023.8

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  • Title:
    Capitalism as a Concept of Difference in the Historiography of Iran
  • Author: Harris, Kevan
  • Subjects: 19th century ; Capitalism ; Economic growth ; Global economy ; Historiography ; Postcolonialism
  • Is Part Of: Iranian studies, 2023-04, Vol.56 (2), p.391-394
  • Description: In the historiography of Iran, capitalism is commonly evoked as a “concept of difference.” By this, I mean that the term is regularly used to characterize socioeconomic phenomena as modern versus traditional, leading versus laggard, foreign versus indigenous, or hero versus villain in an assumed direction of history. As Jürgen Kocka remarked when coining the phrase, most definitions of capitalism since the nineteenth century have been used by intellectuals to distinguish experiences of their own time from either the past or the future. And it is in terms of this rhetorical function that its significance and limitations for Iranian historiography can be analyzed.
  • Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English;Persian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0021-0862
    EISSN: 1475-4819
    DOI: 10.1017/irn.2023.8
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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