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The Persians

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The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day.A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day.Traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revoltuion on 1979 and the establishment of the current Islamic Republic.Uses the most recent scholarship to examine Iran's political, social and cultural history.Focuses on rulership as a central theme in Iranian identity.Also shows how land, language and literature relate to Iranian identity.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published May 11, 2004

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August 4, 2019
Tarihte belki de hiçbir ülke İran kadar radikal değişimler yaşamamıştır. İran Tarihi, bu köklü medeniyetin geçirdiği sıra dışı süreçleri, her dönem için en yenileri de dahil olmak üzere bütün önemli kaynakları kullanarak analitik bir yöntemle ele alıyor. Profesör Garth-waite, MÖ 6. yüzyılda ilk Pers İmparatorluğu'nu kuran Büyük Kiros'tan başlayarak imparatorluğun yükselişine ve Roma'yla çekişmesine, Arapların fethine, 16. yüzyılda tekrar bir Pers devletinin kurulmasına ve 1979'daki İslam Devrimi'nin ardından İslam Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşuna kadar bütün olayları titiz araştırmalar ve geniş kaynaklar ışığında değerlendiriyor. İran Tarihi kitabı, İranlı kimliğinin temelinde yer alan hükümdarlık kurumunun ekseninde ülkenin siyasi, toplumsal ve kültürel tarihinin zengin bir özeti...
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June 2, 2024
Informative but a real slog. Until the final chapter involving the Pahlavis and the Iranian Revolution, the reader is presented with many names, concepts and dates but no real sense of what made the Persians what they are. Remember how school kids always complained that history class was boring because it was nothing but memorizing dates and places? That's this book. Perhaps it has a place on the shelf as a reference, but it definitely leaves the "story" out of history.
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