A history of modern Iran /
From the Publisher: In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavi's and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of maps
- List of illustrations
- List of tables and figures
- Chronology
- Glossary
- A political who's who of modern Iran
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. 'Royal despots' : state and society under the Qajars
- 2. Reform, revolution, and the Great War
- 3. The iron fist of Reza Shah
- 4. The nationalist interregnum
- 5. Muhammad Reza Shah's White Revolution
- 6. The Islamic Republic
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- Index.