Social Histories of Iran, Paperback - Stephanie Cronin

Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological nationalism...

Reducere. When Terence O'Donnell, an American who lived in Iran for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, was asked what he was doing there, he replied, "The...

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

"Deeply moving...A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history." -The Wall Street Journal The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolut...

A Man of DevotionAs the Minister of Culture and Fine Arts for the last Shah of Iran, Mehrdad Pahlbod's life was entangled with royalty, celebrity, ...

A new translation of the foundation texts of the Zoroastrian religion, the Gathas (songs) composed by Zoraster himself, together with the Liturgy i...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was an unmitigated disaster for the women of Iran. That fact is well known. What is less well-known and what Manda Z...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIt proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum...

Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by showing how col...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionSimplify and deepen children's prayer of the Rosary with this beautiful book, complete with color-coded Hail Mary's to help answer the q...

Reducere. In that the clerical regime in Iran lacks the military capability to build advanced weaponry, it has resorted to the production of weapons and equi...

DescriptionFrom encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth c...

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Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Vincent CroninNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 20Cover type: Paperba...

The story of the rhetorical and practical assistance that Britain has given to the Zionist movement and the state of Israel since 1917

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressIllustration(s): 20 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 24Co...

In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells her extraordinary life story.

This book brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept of racial capitalism across h...

Reducere. From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundl...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Chris McNabIllustration(s): Black & white and colour photos.Number of pages: 64Collection: ElitePubl...

An epic history revealing how the US and Iran went from allies to adversaries over three hundred years

This anthology examines the global history of states, drawing upon both modernist and postmodernist theory. As an overview of approaches to the stu...

Examines abuse of the civil rights and liberties of tens of thousands of Canadians and Canadian residents via internment from 1914 to the present d...

Reducere. Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over...

A detailed and engaging look at the most significant battle in English history

Through historical case studies of ten different countries, this book offers new insights into both the successes and the limitations of Latin Amer...

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Utilizing a historical context, this work underscores the continued struggle within these societies between the hardliners who wish to relegate fem...

The Iranian holocaust was one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, yet it remained concealed for nearly a century. Using primary sources suc...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kaveh AskariIllustration(s): 54 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 260Collection: Cinema Culture...

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...

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Reducere. The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicana Power tells the powerful story of t...

Reducere. "Vigil in the Night" is A. J. Cronin's poignant and moving tale of two nurses-of Anne, who devoted herself to serving others, and of her younger si...

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

The story of one Baha'i woman's experiences at the hands of the Iranian Revolutionaries in the 1980s. Amid the escalating program she witnessed fri...

Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges argue that rapidly changing conditions alon...

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...

Reducere. Junaluska is one of the oldest African American communities in western North Carolina and one of the few surviving today. After Emancipation, many ...