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Book SynopsisThis book uses US diplomatic, military, and intelligence records, as well as primary British sources to examine the famine, epidemics, and chaos in Iran under Allied occupation during World War II.
Trade ReviewMohammad Gholi Majd’s latest book, which deals with food shortages and famine in Iran during the Second World War, and his previous work looking at the famine conditions experienced in Iran during the First World War, are welcome for the attention threat they focus on the much-neglected subject of the suffering of ordinary Iranians during the cataclysmic and often very violent upheavals which accompanied the arrival of modernity in Iran and the county’s incorporation into the emerging global economic and political systems…. Majd’s book, therefore, contributes to recent efforts to look beyond the concerns of the political elite in Tehran, who were not only remarkably unmoved by the spectacle of mass starvation but were themselves avid hoarders and speculators, towards the profound struggle for survival which the population of Iran was obliged to wage unceasingly and often unsuccessfully…. The book is therefore useful for researchers…[and] for methodological exercises for History Students. * Middle Eastern Studies *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Fear of Soviet Mischief in Northern Iran and the Tripartite Treaty of Alliance Chapter 3. Soheily Cabinet, Rupture with Japan, and Extension of Lend-Lease to Iran Chapter 4. Iranian Appeals and British Counteractions in Washington Chapter 5. Currency and Exchange Dispute with Britain and Paucity of Oil Revenues Chapter 6. The Transportation Crisis and the Establishment of Road Transport Board Chapter 7. Iran and the Middle East Supply Center Chapter 8. The Middle East Supply Center and the Typhus Vaccine Chapter 9. The Supply of Pharmaceuticals and Sugar: Case Studies in the Functioning of MESC Chapter 10. Influx of Polish Refugees from Russia Chapter 11. The American Red Cross and Iran Chapter 12. Deepening Crisis and Weakening of Soheily Government Chapter 13. Appointment of Qavam and Rising Friction with the British Chapter 14. Renewed Financial Dispute and Tripartite Food Declaration Chapter 15. Tehran Bread Riots Chapter 16. Fall of Qavam and Re-Appointment of Soheily Chapter 17. Anglo-American Exchanges and American Views on British Policy in Iran Chapter 18. American-Iranian Relations and American Policy on Iran Chapter 19. Russian Policy in Iran: Propaganda and Pressure Chapter 20. Russian Policy and Conditions in Azerbaijan and Khorassan Chapter 21. Allied Failure to Deliver Wheat on Time Chapter 22. The Famine of 1942-1943: A Documentary Account Chapter 23. The Typhus Epidemic: A Documentary Account Chapter 24. Tribal Uprisings and the Spreading Chaos Chapter 25. British-American Exchanges and Memoranda on Iran and the Tehran Declaration Chapter 26. Attempts at Revival of Dictatorship Chapter 27. Another Looming Famine and Actions to Avert It Chapter 28. The Anglo-American Notes and Evasion of Commitments to Iran Chapter 29. A Malthusian Catastrophe: The Toll from Famine and Disease
