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| #276625 in Books | 2008-07-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.59 x5.98l,.95 | File type: PDF | 228 pages||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| What you didn't know about Iran will surprise you|By C P Slayton|It might surprise many to know that Iran had a working parliament (majles) as early as 1906. As far as Iranian history goes, this has to be one of the best overviews of Iran's last 100 years.
The book begins with the Qajar dynasty in its dying days. Iran's political borders are not what one might ex||"Ervand Abrahamian has done for Iran what de Tocqueville did for France, showing how the revolution continued the work of the ancien regime, through the ever increasing power of the state." - Edward Mortimer, Senior Vice-President, Salzburg Global Seminar, and
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 Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country has experienced a bitter war with Iraq, the transformation of society under the clergy and, more recently, the expansion of the state and the struggle for power between the o...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.A History of Modern Iran | Ervand Abrahamian. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
