Description
Book SynopsisExamines Europe’s discovery of ancient Iran, first in philology and then in art history, and explores the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies of power, selfhood, and statehood in British India and Zand-Qajar-Pahlavi Iran.
Trade Review“The Persian Revival is an original study that builds a strong case for the transmission and deployment of knowledge across regions and cultural realms. It does so for a hitherto uncharted period and region—one that has not received adequate scholarly attention—and makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on global art and architectural histories of the long nineteenth century.”
—Madhuri Desai,author of Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
“The Persian Revival is a finely wrought, insightful, and successful contribution to the study of the reception of ancient Iran in the modern world. Entirely original, it draws observations from archives and from a wide range of literature and material evidence.”
—Christina Maranci,author of Medieval Armenian Architecture: Constructions of Race and Nation
