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All the Shah's Menby Stephen Kinzer
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 14.95This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal CIA reports) that have now been declassified. Stephen Kinzer's compelling narrative is at once a vital piece of history, a cautionary tale, and a real-life espionage thriller. more...
A History of Modern Iranby Ervand Abrahamian
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00A radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, tracing its traumatic journey across the twentieth century. more...
Reconstruction and Regional Diplomacy in the Persian Gulfby Hooshang Amirahmadi; Nader Entessar
Routledge 1992; US$ 170.00The social, political and economic patterns of interaction between the Gulf states. The authors consider the role of the superpowers and of religion, and offer their own policy prescriptions. more...
Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iranby George Lane
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 39.95This book opposes the way in which, for too long, the whole period of Mongol domination of Iran has been viewed from a negative standpoint. more...
Persian Mirrorsby Elaine Sciolino
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 12.99No American reporter has more experience covering Iran or more access to the private corners of Iranian society than Elaine Sciolino. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, she has reported on the key events of the past two decades. She was aboard the airplane that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Tehran in 1979; she was there for the Iranian revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the rise of President Mohammad Khatami, and the riots of the summer of 1999. In Persian Mirrors, Sciolino takes us into the public and private spaces of Iran -- the bazaars, beauty salons, aerobics studios, courtrooms, universities, mosques, and the presidential palace -- to capture the vitality of a society so often misunderstood... more...
After Khomeiniby Anoushiravan Ehteshami
Routledge 1995; US$ 59.95This is the first analytical study of post-Khomeini Iran to look at crucial policy changes since 1979. Ehteshami argues that Iran is not the threat portrayed by the west, but is capable of emerging as a major world power. more...
Iranian History and Politicsby Homa Katouzian
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 39.95This book contains the most detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian history and politics, both modern and traditional. more...
Iran Encountering Globalizationby Ali Mohammadi
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 175.00Examines the current state of Iran, looking at a wide range of areas including the economy, finance, politics, the media, the position of women and migration. more...
Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iranby Stephanie Cronin
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 160.00The contributors of this book undertake a fundamental reexamination and reappraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran. more...
Making of Modern Iranby Stephanie Cronin
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 190.00The articles in this volume collectively present a picture of Iran under Riza Shah in all its complexity, in darker as well as lighter shades, highlighting the era's debt to the past as well as its legacy to the future. more...