Iran in Motion : Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway

297 Pages·2021·7.843 MB·English

by  Mikiya Koyagi

IRAN IN MOTION
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I R A N I N M O T I O N
Mobility, Space, and the Trans- Iranian Railway
Mikiya Koyagi
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii
Introduction 1
1 Building a Transimperial Infrastructure 18
2 The Road to Salvation 40
3 Nationalizing the Railway 63
4 Redirecting Mobilities 85
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Acknowledgments
Tis project began more than a decade ago, when I was researching phys-
ical education in early Pahlavi Iran. In the process of reading hundreds of
interwar Persian newspaper and journal articles, I found dozens of articles
about the Trans- Iranian Railway project. As a former employee of a Japanese
railway company, I wanted to know more about the Trans- Iranian Railway
that the Iranian press covered with so much enthusiasm. I soon found out
that there was no extensive study of the railway project and that I would have
to write it myself. Since then, I have been fortunate to have met many new
friends and colleagues. Tis book could not have been completed without
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