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Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace.
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June 22, 2008
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Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace. By Arang Keshavarzian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 302 pp. $91.
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At the time of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, two-thirds of Iran's wholesale trade and at least 30 percent of imports were transacted through Tehran's bazaar merchants. The merchandise did not necessarily physically pass through the bazaar, but the bazaaris controlled the trade. The bazaar was the national commercial emporium for the import of almost all consumer goods and for many intermediate goods used as inputs in manufacturing. The bazaar was also an important public forum; the exchange of ...
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