Paper Modernity? Notes on an Iranian Industrial Tour, 1818
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12044612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nile Green (0000-0001-9575-3889, Department of History, UCLA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 277-284 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iran (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0578-6967 • E-ISSN: 2396-9202 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/05786967.2008.11864748 |
| OpenAlex | W2791019446 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article contributes to discussions of technology transfer in the modernisation of Iran through the study of a neglected episode in the memoirs of an early Qajar traveller to England. Arguing for the importance of papyrology to cultural historians, it deals with the irony by which in the early nineteenth century Iran was able to import modern print technology but not the new papermaking skills that printing required. By building on references in the safar-nāma of Mīrzā Ṣāliḥ Shīrāzī, the main body of the “notes” reconstructs the Mīrzā's tour of an industrialised English paper factory in 1818 and the light it sheds on Iran's struggles to develop a modern paper industry
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Factory (object-oriented programming · Irony · Literature · Memoir · Modernity · Modernization theory · Papermaking · Political science · Visual arts · Computer Science · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |