Ancient
Persia : From 550 Bc to 650 Ad
by Josef Wiesehofer
Book Description:
Of all the great civilizations of the ancient world, that of Persia
is one of the least understood. Josef Wiesehöfer's comprehensive survey
of the Persian Empire under the Achaeminids, the Parthians, and the Sasanians
focuses on the primary Persian sources-written, archaeological, and numismatic.
He avoids the traditional Western approach, which has tended to rely heavily
on inaccurate Greek and Roman accounts. Part of the freshness of this book
comes from its Near Eastern perspective.
Hardcover: 400 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.50 x
9.75 x 6.50
Publisher: I.B. Tauris ; (July 1998)
ISBN: 1850439990
The
Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran
by Stephanie Cronin
Card catalog description
In 1921 Riza Khan, a colonel in the Iranian Cossack Brigade, rode on
Tehran and, in a military coup that was to change Iran's destiny, took
power. Appropriating the state-building objectives of Iranian constitutionalism
and nationalism, Riza Khan embarked on the task of constructing a strong,
modern, centralized state at the heart of which lay a new national army.
Ruthless and cunning, he used the emergent military and political institutions
to crush both civilian and military opposition, and in 1926 crowned himself
Shah of Iran. But in the construction of his army Riza Khan relied upon
the material bequeathed to him by the reform efforts of the late nineteenth
century and the constitutional revolution. This unique book - the first
to discuss in detail the way in which the modern Iranian army was created
- puts the rise of Riza Shah into sorely needed historical context and
outlines, in a careful analysis of the way in which Riza ensured the army
over civil institutions such as parliament and the provincial authorities,
the military roots of monarchical dictatorship in Iran.
Hardcover: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.07 x
8.68 x 5.60
Publisher: I.B. Tauris ; (March 1997)
ISBN: 1860641059
Black
on Black: Iran Revisited
by Ana M. Briongos, Chris Andrews (Translator)
Blood
and Oil : Inside the Shah's Iran
by Manucher Farmanfarmaian, Roxane Farmanfarmaian
Anyone who views Iran merely as a nation of Muslim fanatics should
read this riveting exposition of its tortuous 20th-century history. Born
in 1917 into an aristocratic Iranian family, Manucher Farmanfarmaian served
his country in the treacherous world of petroleum production and distribution--the
source, he believes, of the disastrous Western meddling that indirectly
led to the 1979 fundamentalist revolution. Writing with his journalist
daughter, Farmanfarmaian details Iran's labyrinthine internal politics
and international relations with thoroughness enlivened by muscular prose,
a sharp eye for character, and lots of good anecdotes. Amazon.com
Paperback: 560 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.07 x
9.22 x 6.14
Publisher: Modern Library; ; (February 1999)
ISBN: 0375753087
Close
Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future
by Hamid Dabashi
(Paperback -- November 2001)
Closed
Circuit History
by Ardashir Muhassis
Art in Iran
Hardcover: 232 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x
11.50 x 9.75
Publisher: Mage Pub; (September 1989)
ISBN: 0934211183
Crowning
Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity: 1884-1914
by Taj Al-Saltanah et al.
Publisher: Mage Pub; (February 2003)
Daughter
of Persia : A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic
Revolution
by Sattareh Farman Farmaian, et al
Synopsis Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful
and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s
in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more than
30 brothers and sisters. As a young woman, she broke with Muslim tradition
and travelled to America, where she became the first Persian to study at
the University of Southern California. Her new life in the West fired a
vision to lift her own people out of backwardness and poverty, and she
returned to Iran to found the Tehran School of Social Work. For more than
20 years, Sattareh and her students waged a war against poverty, disease
and overcrowding, and then, soon after the collapse of the Shah's regime,
she was forced to flee the country in fear of her life. In this account
of her experiences, she provides an insider's view of Iran's journey through
the 20th century and of the events which led up to, and followed, the Islamic
revolution.
Paperback: 404 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.90 x
8.04 x 5.24
Publisher: Anchor; ; Reprint edition (May 1993)
ISBN: 0385468660 |
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Die
Mongolen In Iran (in German)
by B. Spuler
Hardcover
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers; (August 1997)
ISBN: 9004070990
Dynamics
of the Iranian Revolution: The Pahlavis' Triumph and Tragedy
by Jahangir Amuzegar
Empire
and Nationhood : The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954
by Mary Ann Heiss
Book Description: Heiss provides the most detailed account available
of the 1951 seizure of British oil holdings in Iran by prime minister Mohammed
Mossadegh, a turning point in cold war history.
Publisher: Columbia University Press (October 15, 1997)
Esther's
Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews
by Houman Sarshar
Hardcover from Jewish Publication Society
Book Published: August, 2002
Frontier
Nomads of Iran : A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan
by Richard Tapper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (October 1997)
Firewall
: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up
by Lawrence E. Walsh (Preface)
From
Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution
by Ehsan Naraghi, translated by Nilou Mobasser
Great
Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941
by Mohammad Gholi Majd
Book Description: Using recently declassified U.S. State Department
archives, Mohammad Gholi Majd describes the rampant tyranny and destruction
of Iran in the decades between the two world wars in a sensational yet
thoroughly scholarly study that will rewrite the political and economic
history of the country.
Publisher: University Press of Florida; (September 2001)
The Greco-Persian Wars
by Peter Green
Listed under Greek Wars
The
Golden Age of Persia
by Richard Nelson Frye
Paperback: 304 pages
Sterling Publications; ISBN: 1842120115; (August 2000)
The
Guts to Try : The Untiold Story of the Iran Hostage Rescue Mission by the
On-Scene Desert Commander
by Colonel James H. Kyle, John Robert Eidson
Mass Market Paperback from Ballantine Books
Book Published: 30 April, 2002
Historical
Dictionary of Iran
by John H. Lorentz
(Hardcover -- January 3, 2002)
Honeymoon
in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
by Alison Wearing
(Paperback -- December 2001)
The
History of Iran (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)
by Elton L. Daniel (Author)
Book Description: With almost three thousand years of history,
Iran is home to one of the world's richest and most complex cultures. Yet
to the average American the name Iran probably conjures up an image of
a remote and upstart country inhabited by a people whose religious fanaticism
is matched only by the intensity of their disdain for the United States
and its values, who speak an obscure tongue called Farsi, and whose identity
is not clearly distinguished from that of their Arab neighbors. This work
offers an objective and engagingly written portrait of the Iranian people
and their complex history from the perspective of one of the world's foremost
experts on the country. It is ideal for student use and for the interested
reader.
History
of the Persian Empire
by Arthur T. Olmstead
Book Description: Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient
Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material
into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for
the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point
of view.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd); (February 1959)
Iran
As Imagined Nation : The Construction of National Identity
by Mostafa Vaziri
Publisher: Marlowe & Co; (April 1994)
Iran
and Iranian studies : essays in honor of Iraj Afshar
by Kambiz Eslami (Editor)
Publisher: Zagros Press; 1 edition (October 1, 1998)
Iran
in the Pahlavi Era/Iran Dar Asr-E Pahlavi
by Mostafa Alamuti
Publisher: Ibex Pub; (November 1990)
Iran
(Major World Nations)
by Garry Lyle (1997)
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library); (October 1997)
Iran
and the Rise of Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Rule
by Cyrus Ghani
Paperback: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.32 x
9.19 x 6.11
Publisher: I.B. Tauris ; (February 2001)
ISBN: 1860646298
Iran
at the Crossroads
by John L. Esposito (Editor), R. K. Ramazani (Editor)
(Hardcover -- February 2001)
Iran
the Beautiful
by Daniel Nadler
Hardcover from Mage Pub
Book Published: 01 November, 2002
The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict
by Dilip Hiro
Listed under Iran-Iraq War
The
Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic
by Mohsen M. Milani
Book Description In this fully revised and expanded second edition,
Dr. Milani offers new insights into the causes and profound consequences
of Iran's Islamic Revolution. Drawing on dozens of personal interviews
with the officials of the Islamic Republic and on recently released documents,
he presents a provocative analysis of the dynamics and characteristics
of factional politics in Islamic Iran. Among the new issues covered are
the events leading up to the Teheran hostage crisis, Ayatollah Khomeini's
life and writings, President Rafsanjani's activities against the Shah,
Rafsanjani's recent reforms, Iran's involvement in the Kuwaiti crisis,
and the domestic and foreign policy challenges facing Iran in the post-Cold
War era.
Paperback: 268 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.65 x
9.01 x 6.06
Publisher: Westview Press; 2nd edition (October 1994)
ISBN: 0813384761
Mussadiq
and the Struggle for Power in Iran
by Homa Katouzian (1999)
Modern
Iran
by Grant M. Farr (1998)
Modern
Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution
by Nikki R. Keddie
Paperback from Yale Univ Pr
Book Published: 01 October, 2003
The
Middle East : A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
by Bernard W. Lewis (1996)
Neither
East Nor West : One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
by Christiane Bird
Persia
and the Bible
by Edwin M. Yamauchi, Donald J. Wiseman
Paperback from Baker Book House
Book Published: January, 1997
The
Persian Sphinx : Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
by Abbas Milani
Hardcover: 400 pages
Mage Pub; ISBN: 0934211612; 1 Ed edition (July 2000)
The
Priest and the King: An Eyewitness Account of the Iranian Revolution
by Desmond Harney
The
Persian Empire (Cultures of the Past)
by Karen Zeinert (1996)
Qajar
Iran : Political, Social and Cultural Change, 1800-1925
by Edmond Bosworth, Carole Hillenbrand (Editor) (1992)
The
Persian Book of Kings: An Epitome of the Shahnama of Firdawsi
by B. W. Robinson
Book Description: Written in the 10th century by Firdawsi, the
Shahnama is the national epic poem of Persia, which chronicles the reigns
and feats of the earliest Persian kings of four dynasties-the Pishdadians,
Kayanians, Ashkanians, and Sasanians. Illustrated with early Persian paintings
depicting the events as they unfold, this edition presents in easily accessible
language a summary and retelling of the Shahnama. It covers the entire
epic in a single volume, providing a concise overview of and introduction
to early Persian sovereignty.
Publisher: Curzon Press; (April 2002)
The
Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron
Paperback from Oxford University Press
Book Published: May, 1982 |
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Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch, 1779-1924
by Layla S. Diba et al.
Listed under Islamic Art
Saffron
Sky : A Life Between Iran and America
by Gelareh Asayesh (Author)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
by T. E. Lawrence
Listed under T.E. Lawrence
The
Splendour of Iran
by Nasrollah Pourjavady
(Hardcover - February 2001)
Shah-Nama
of Fardusi; Translated From the Original Persian
by Alexander Rogers
Publisher: South Asia Books; 1 edition (July 1, 1996)
To
See and See Again : A Life in Iran and America
by Tara Bahrampour
(Paperback -- August 29, 2000)
Shah
of Shahs
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Paperback from Vintage
Book Published: 04 February, 1992 |
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Seven
Shades of Memory: Stories of Old Iran
by Terence O'Donnell
Reinventing
Khomeini The Struggle for Reform in Iran
by Daniel Brumberg
Searching
for Hassan: An American Family's Journey Home to Iran
by Terence Ward
(Hardcover -- January 16, 2002)
In
Search of the Lost Mountains of Noah : The Discovery of the Real Mt. Ararat
by Robert Cornuke, David Halbrook
Hardcover: 224 pages
Broadman & Holman Publishers; ISBN: 0805420541; (September
2001)
Shah
of Shahs
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Paperback -- January 1992)
The Silver Kingdom; Iran in History and Prophecy
by Mark Hitchcock
Publisher: Hearthstone Publishing, Ltd.; (December 1994)
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Time
for Truth
by Ashraf Pahlavi
Princess Ashraf Pahlavi is the twin sister of the late Shah of Iran
Paperback: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x
8.00 x 5.25
Publisher: In Print Pub; (June 1995)
ISBN: 1886966001
The
Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran
by Said Amir Arjomand
Book Description The Iranian revolution still baffles most Western
observers. Few considered the rise of theocracy in a modernized state possible,
and fewer thought it might result from a popular revolution. Said Amir
Arjomand's The Turban for the Crown provides a thoughtful, painstakingly
researched, and intelligible account of the turmoil in Iran which reveals
the importance of this singular event for our understanding of revolutions.
Providing crucial historical background, Arjomand examines both the
structure of authority in Shi'ism (one of the two main branches of Islam)
and the impact of the modern state on Iranian society, two factors essential
to the comprehension of the revolution of 1979. He then describes the emergence
of Khomeini; the infusion of petrodollars into the economy; the blatant
political corruption; and Khomeini's disposal of Bakhtiar, Bani-Sadr, and
Bazargan, consolidation of religious rule, and establishment of a constitution
based on a new interpretation of Islamic principles.
Paperback: 296 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.81 x
9.04 x 6.00
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand; (November 1989)
ISBN: 0195042581
The
Voyage and the Messenger : Iran and Philosophy
The Valleys of the Assassins
by Freya Stark
Listed under Freya Stark
Winds
of Change: The Future of Democracy in Iran
by Reza Pahlavi
Book Description After more than two decades under the rule
of a clerical dictatorship, Iran is mired in backwardness, poverty, corruption,
rigidity, radicalism, and incivility. Yet, there is hope for the future.
In Winds of Change, Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah of
Iran, outlines his vision for a democratic Iran. Forced to live in exile
since the establishment of the clerical regime in 1979, he has been a leading
advocate of freedom, democracy, and human rights for Iranians. Pahlavi's
prescription for the salvation of his homeland is simple: popular sovereignty
and self-determination. Iran is a politically diverse society, with leftists
and rightists, monarchists and republicans, conservatives, centrists, and
liberals. Yet all can agree on the basic agenda he puts forward for his
countrymen in Winds of Change.
Hardcover: 152 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x
7.34 x 5.26
Publisher: Regnery Publishing; (January 2002)
ISBN: 089526191X
Xenophon:
Cyropaedia Books I-IV (Xenophon, Vol 5)
by Xenephon
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; (April 1985)
Xenophon's
Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia
by Christopher Nadon
Book Description: For over two millennia, the Cyropaedia, an
imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's
most popular work and considered his masterpiece. This study contributes
to the recent rediscovery of the Cyropaedia and Xenophon, making intelligible
the high esteem in which writers of the stature of Machiavelli held Xenophon's
works and the importance of his place among classical authors.
Publisher: University of California Press; (June 4, 2001)
The Valleys of the Assassins : and Other Persian Travels
by Freya Stark
Pivot of the Universe; Nasir Al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy,
1831-1896
by Abbas Amanat
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The Persian Empire (World History Series)
by Don Nardo (1998)
Persians : Masters of the Empire (Lost Civilizations)
by Time Life (Editor)
Publisher: Time Life; (August 1995)
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