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This volume investigates the nature of modern social change in Iran through a combination of the theoretical insights of international relations and historical sociology. It argues that there is a previously neglected international dimension to social change that sheds a new light on the specificities of Iran's experience of modernity.

Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has international relations at its ontological core. This will enable a conception of history in which there is an intrinsic international dimension to social change that prevents historical repetition.

This hitherto under-theorized international dimension is, the book argues, manifest in...