University Press of America
Pages: 748
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7618-6738-8 • Hardback • March 2016 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-0-7618-6739-5 • eBook • March 2016 • $139.50 • (£108.00)
Mohammad Gholi Majd is the author of The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran: 1917-1919 (2nd Edition). University Press of America, 2013, and other works on twentieth century Iranian history. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell University.
Chapter 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
Mohammad 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