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A History of Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $42.88In a radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country's traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, through the discovery of oil, imperial... -
Iran Between Two Revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $97.21Emphasizing the interaction between political organizations and social forces, Ervand Abrahamian discusses Iranian society and politics during the period between the Constitutional Revolution of... -
The Iranian Mojahedin by Ervand Abrahamian 9780300052671
Booksplease Price: $64.37In this book, a leading authority on Iranian political parties offers the first history of the Mojahedin, a little-known radical group that was instrumental in bringing the Ayatollah Khomeini to... -
Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat by Ervand Abrahamian
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $66.09Focusing on the turbulent twenty-eight months between April 1951 and August 1953, this book, based on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration tell... -
Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat by Ervand Abrahamian 9781108930888
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $54.48Focusing on the turbulent twenty-eight months between April 1951 and August 1953, this book, based on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration tell... -
A History of Modern Iran Ervand Abrahamian (City University of New York) 9781107198340
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $130.44In a radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country's traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, through the discovery of oil, imperial... -
The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S. - Iranian Revelations by Ervand Abrahamian 9781620970867
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41In this well-documented account [that] will become indispensable reading for students of the modern Middle East' (Choice), Abrahamian uncovers little-known documents that challenge conventional... -
Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Iran: Essays in Honour of Ervand Abrahamian Houchang E. Chehabi 9781399544283
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $52.63Illuminates hitherto-understudied aspects of Iran’s socio-political and socio-cultural history. -
Iran: Dictatorship and Development Fred Halliday 9780861546770
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.38Originally completed mere months before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Fred Halliday's study of twentieth-century Iran was not only incredibly timely but a deeply researched, thought-provoking work... -
The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran: The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953-1968 by Ali Rahnema
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.28How did the Shah of Iran become a modern despot? In 1953, Iranian monarch Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi emerged victorious from a power struggle with his prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq, thanks to... -
The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East: Iran, Palestine and Beyond by Rasmus C. Elling 9780861547289
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $77.86In the latter half of the twentieth century, a revolutionary idea promised to upend the global order. Anti-imperialist militancy, bolstered by international solidarity, would lead to not only the... -
Call to Arms: Iran’s Marxist Revolutionaries: Formation and Evolution of the Fada'is, 1964–1976 by Ali Rahnema
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.28On 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Iran's Gilan province. Barely two months later, the Iranian People's Fada'i Guerrillas... -
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic Second Edition by Michael Axworthy
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66FULLY UPDATED THIRD EDITION, NOW WITH NEW POSTSCRIPT BY ALI ANSARI'If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran you could not do better than this' Ervand Abrahamian, Times Higher... -
Islam, the People and the State: Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East by Sami Zubaida 9781845118235
Booksplease Price: $56.32The recent prominence of Islamic politics in the Middle East, has raised important questions about society, politics and culture. It has posed a challenge to the main theoretical approaches in the... -
Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution by Misagh Parsa 9780813514123
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $47.97Misagh Parsa develops a structural theory of the causes and outcomes of revolution, applying the theory in particular to Iran. He focuses on the ends and means of various groups of Iranians before,... -
The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963: Capital, Power, and Ideology by Samira Haj 9780791432426
Booksplease Price: $50.58This book's innovative approach makes it an important intervention into the field of modern Iraqi and Arab history. Samira Haj's discussion of the factors that led to, and paradoxically caused the... -
Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $53.59A masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009"The defiant spirit of [Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 500 years."-Richard Spencer, The Times (London) "A... -
Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace by Arang Keshavarzian 9780521103305
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $59.18The Tehran Bazaar has always been central to the Iranian economy and indeed, to the Iranian urban experience. Arang Keshavarzian's fascinating book compares the economics and politics of the... -
Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace by Arang Keshavarzian 9780521866187
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $159.90The Tehran Bazaar has always been central to the Iranian economy and indeed, to the Iranian urban experience. Arang Keshavarzian's fascinating book compares the economics and politics of the... -
State, Religion, and Revolution in Iran, 1796 to the Present by Behrooz Moazami 9781137325884
Booksplease Price: $178.21Two basic assumptions have shaped understanding of recent Iranian history. One is that Shi'ism is an integral part of Iran's religious and cultural landscape. The other is that the ulama (religious... -
State, Religion, and Revolution in Iran, 1796 to the Present by Behrooz Moazami 9781137325853
Booksplease Price: $176.59Two basic assumptions have shaped understanding of recent Iranian history. One is that Shi'ism is an integral part of Iran's religious and cultural landscape. The other is that the ulama (religious... -
Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook by Mehrzad Boroujerdi 9780815635741
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $93.80The 1979 revolution fundamentally altered Iran's political landscape as a generation of inexperienced clerics who did not hail from the ranks of the upper class-and were not tainted by association... -
Iranian Refugees in Transit: Exile and the Politics of Survival in Turkey after the 1979 Revolution Maral Jefroudi 9780755648139
Booksplease Price: $60.20Maral Jefroudi presents a comprehensive picture of one of the largest migration waves in contemporary history by analyzing refugees' interactions with the Turkish State, the UNHCR, and within the... -
Iranian Refugees in Transit: Exile and the Politics of Survival in Turkey after the 1979 Revolution Maral Jefroudi 9780755648092
Booksplease Price: $178.21Maral Jefroudi presents a comprehensive picture of one of the largest migration waves in contemporary history by analyzing refugees' interactions with the Turkish State, the UNHCR, and within the... -
The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran's Founder by Shaul Bakhash 9780755638093
Booksplease Price: $52.69Reza Shah's authoritarian and modernising reign transformed Iran, but his rule and Iran's independence ended in ignominy in 1941. In this book, Shaul Bakhash tells the full story of the Anglo-Soviet... -
Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity by Afshin Matin-Asgari
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $49.59Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result,... -
Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity by Afshin Matin-Asgari 9781108428538
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $156.49Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result,... -
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran by Lior B. Sternfeld
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $132.64Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the population numbered around 100,000; today about 25,000 Jews live in Iran... -
The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder by Shaul Bakhash 9780755634408
Booksplease Price: $201.06Reza Shah's authoritarian and modernising reign transformed Iran, but his rule and Iran's independence ended in ignominy in 1941. In this book, Shaul Bakhash tells the full story of the Anglo-Soviet... -
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran by Lior B. Sternfeld 9781503613638
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the population numbered around 100,000; today about 25,000 Jews live in Iran... -
ReTargeting Iran by David Barsamian 9780872868045
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.33A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.The United States and Iran seem to be permanently... -
Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed by Professor of Sociology Misagh Parsa 9780674545045
Booksplease Price: $98.55The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal... -
Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 by Nasser Mohajer
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.20In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Iraq. Over the next two months, under the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, political... -
Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs by Ray Takeyh 9780195327847
RRP: $51.66Booksplease Price: $41.98For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic:... -
Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (University of Oxford) 9781108426343
RRP: $249.60Booksplease Price: $209.45The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite, in... -
Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $80.50The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite, in...