Persians

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ISBN: 9781405156806

ISBN-10: 1405156805

ISBN-13: 9781405156806

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gene R. Garthwaite

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The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. Traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revoltuion on 1979 and the establishment of the current Islamic Republic. Uses the most recent scholarship to examine Iran's political, social and cultural history. Focuses on rulership as a central theme in Iranian identity. Also shows how land, language and…

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List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.05" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Gene R. Garthwaite is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Khans and Shahs: A Documentary Analysis of the Bakhtiyari in Iran (1983).



List of Figures


List of Dynastic Tables


List of Maps


Acknowledgments


Dynastic Tables


Maps



Persia: Place and Idea



The Achaemenians (c.550-331 BC)



Alexander (330-323 BC), the Seleucids (312-129 BC), and the Parthians (247 BC - AD 224)



The Sasanians (c.224-651)



"Non-Iran": Arabs, Turks, and Mongols in Iran



The Safavids (1501-1722)



The Qajars (1796-1926)



Iran, 1921-2003: Pahlavi and Islamic Republican Iran


Notes


Further Reading


Index