Despite some problems, The Coup is a valuable corrective to previous work and an important contribution to Iranian history. Ervand Abrahamian is a leading scholar of modern Iran, and his study draws on a wide range of Persian-language sources, including published primary documents, memoirs and firsthand accounts, oral histories, newspapers, and secondary works.
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He combines this research with careful and critical reading of British archival material. He also draws on published documents from the Foreign Relations of the United States series published by the U.
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The coup : 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations
E rvand A brahamian. You do not currently have access to this article. You could not be signed in. Offering 'new insights into his history-shattering event' Reason. Drawing on new information from British Petroleum, the Foreign Office, and the State Department, as well as Iranian memoirs and published interviews, The Coup challenges the conventional interpretation that places events in the context of the Cold War.
For Abrahamian, this is instead a story of North-South relations-between the First and Third Worlds, between oil consuming and oil producing countries, between imperial powers and emerging nation states. He argues that the coup was prompted not so much by Iran's intransigence and rejection of an American compromise as by the refusal of both the UK and the United States to accept the reality of oil nationalization in the early s. The coup not only created in Iran a deep distrust of the United States and increased the already intense distrust of the British Empire but also tarred the monarchy with the imperial brush, thereby helping to pave the way for the Islamic Revolution of Reviews "Not only is this book important because of its presentation of history.
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