{"product_id":"who-is-knowledgeable-is-strong-cyrus-schayegh-9780520254473","title":"Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong: Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900-1950","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWho Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, \u003c\/i\u003eCyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the increasing stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower, and demographic stagnation. The book examines the ways by which scientific knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists to socially differentiate themselves from society at large and, at the very same time, to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that both class formation and social reform emerged at the interstices of local Iranian and Western-dominated global contexts and concerns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cyrus Schayegh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520254473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520254473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2009 pg. 18","brand":"Cyrus Schayegh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44598232580351,"sku":"9780520254473","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2b9faf5-7f35-41ff-b767-f4487f34f43e.jpg?v=1702381343","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/who-is-knowledgeable-is-strong-cyrus-schayegh-9780520254473","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}