Occidentalist perceptions of European architecture in nineteenth-century Persian travel diaries : travels in farangi space /

Vahdat Zad, Vahid.,

Occidentalist perceptions of European architecture in nineteenth-century Persian travel diaries : travels in farangi space / Vahid Vahdat Zad. - 1 online resource

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Texas A and M University, 2014) under the title: Imagining the modern : an Occidentalist perception and representation of farangi architecture and urbanism in 19th-Century Persian travel diaries.

1. The first brick -- 2. Modernity in a suitcase -- 3. When worlds collide -- 4. Imagining the modern -- 5. Tajaddod as a discourse.

9781134759316 (ebook: PDF) 9781134759453

10.4324/9781315547510 doi


Space (Architecture)--Foreign public opinion, Iranian.--Europe
East and West.
Travelers' writings, Persian--History and criticism.--19th century
Iranians--Travel--History--Europe--19th century.
Iranians--Diaries.


Europe--Civilization--19th century.
Iran--Intellectual life--19th century.

NA2765 / .V34 2017

720.9409034 / V127