Visual Studies of Modern Iran

The study of race and ethnicity should be considered as an overlooked subject in the field of Iranian photography. One of the important themes in t...

DescriptionIn a radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country's traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth cent...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 308Collection: Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies SeriesPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 2...

DescriptionA masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventiona...

Reducere. Covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in tr...

A challenging historical survey that questions the foundations of modern Islam

Exploring popular culture and national identity in post-revolutionary Iran, this accessible and innovative book based on multi-disciplinary researc...

Reducere. Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew ab...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The Shah's gradual transition to dictatorship after the 1953 coup in Iran, and its far-reaching consequencesPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(...

(Percussion). Like Master Studies, this is a workbook of material to use in developing the hands for drumming. Challenging exercises encourage stud...

Are you a researcher struggling to mine and make sense of a mountain of fashion data? Are you interested in learning about how digital methods and ...

A visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artwork (from the late-nineteenth century to today) inspired and informed by the mystical, esoteric a...

The first comprehensive history of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), told through personal accounts and groundbreaking artwork.

This report analyzes four key aspects of US and Iranian strategic competition--sanctions, energy, arms control, and regime change. Its primary focu...

South African artist Irma Stern (1894-1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on ra...

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

Reducere. In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer...

This memoir is the extraordinary story of how one Iranian woman overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she truly believed and founded a majo...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...

WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2018In the early twentieth century, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson were at the ...

This is the story of the real Argo and one of the six Americans who escaped the 1979 capture of the American Embassy in Iran. The author explains w...

Reducere. The early histories of all the Baha'i communities of southern Iran are narrated here for the first time. Drawing on original sources including manu...

The forty years of Iran's embattled position, commitment to a nuclear programme, and the speculations that the revolution is running down proving t...

DescriptionA vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live th...

DescriptionIran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the populatio...

Reducere. Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Chri...

This book examines a number of research case studies in different methodological contexts to explicate the widely discussed but undertheorized issu...

Follow the fascinating threads of human history in this monumental volume, amply illustrated with maps, archival imagery, and revealing photographs...

Reducere. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democ...

Publisher: Verlag fur Moderne KunstIllustration(s): numerous illustrations in colourNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 304 x 244...

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Analysing the representation of women in modern novels, short stories and cinema, this study is an examination of the controversial social institut...