Download or read book Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran written by S. Cronin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency.