A study of individual trajectories in an early modern global context.
This title presents a study of individual trajectories in an early modern global context. Fascinating figures and events at the edges of Western history are given centre stage, and the book reveals the early modern world to be much smaller than we may have thought.
A study of individual trajectories in an early modern global context.
Due to the language barrier, culture clash, and the nature of the migration of the elderly Iranian immigrants to the United States from a culture with history, traditions and values drastically contrasting the countries of the Western world, this generation of older adults is vu…
This study aims to investigate the psychological foundations of acculturation by viewing it through a developmental perspective. Specifically, attachment theory is utilized to suggest that one's capacity to effectively regulate affect and to securely explore the environment, esp…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between acculturation and the expression of emotional distress in Iranian Americans. The sample of 124 Iranian American adults was recruited through professional organizations, religious organizations, schools, and inform…
Personal and collective identities are transformed by processes of dispersion from a homeland. I argue that the meanings dispersed individuals attach to experiences and events and the ways that they imagine personal and national identity are re-narrated and re-imagined in the ne…