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Iran in world history /

Home of one of the world's most ancient and enduring civilizations, Iran has been at the nexus of world history for the past three thousand years. Situated at the crossroads between East and West, it has been marked by its encounters with other cultures and has influenced them with its own. Fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foltz, Richard C., 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:New Oxford world history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A convergence of land and language (3500-550 BCE)
  • Iran and the Greeks (550-247 BCE)
  • Parthians, Sasanian and Sogdians (247 BCE-651 CE)
  • The Iranization of Islam (651-1027)
  • The Turks: empire-builders and champions of Persian culture (1027-1722)
  • Under Europe's shadow (1722-1925)
  • Modernization and dictatorship: the Pahlavi years (1925-79)
  • The Islamic republic of Iran (1979-present).