TY - JOUR
AU - Painter, David S.
AB - 1494 Reviews of Books France and participate in any collective-security ar- pean International History, 1933–1939 (2011), and to the rangement under the League of Nations, its welcoming remarkable global history by Sally Marks, The Ebbing of of Mussolini as Italy’s “savior . . . (from the Bolshe- European Ascendancy: An International History of the viks)” (p. 173), its sponsorship of the Dawes and Lo- World (2002). AROLE FINK carno agreements that paved the way for Germany’s re- C Ohio State University vival, its small cold war with Soviet Russia, and its appeasement of China’s Nationalists. Indeed, accord- ing to D’Agostino, a British-led international order ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN. The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the could have long stayed intact—conceivably producing a Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations. New York: The “United States of Europe against the United States” (p. New Press. 2013. Pp. xxiii, 277. $26.95. 219)—had not the Great Depression “ruined every- There are several good scholarly studies of the 1951– thing” (p. 215). But once Britain abandoned the gold standard in 1931 and free trade a year later, its central 1953 Iranian crisis and August 1953 coup, but most con- role in the world economy deteriorated, and its acqui- 
TI - Ervand Abrahamian. The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations.
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/118.5.1494
DA - 2013-12-25
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/ervand-abrahamian-the-coup-1953-the-cia-and-the-roots-of-modern-u-s-WcE2l7ioD0
SP - 1494
EP - 1495
VL - 118
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -