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Author : Robert Steele
Release : 2024-06-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 14X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pahlavi Iran's Relations with Africa by : Robert Steele
Download or read book Pahlavi Iran's Relations with Africa written by Robert Steele. This book was released on 2024-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of Iran's political and cultural interactions with Africa during the Cold War and decolonisation.
Author : Robert Steele (Writer of The Shah's imperial celebrations of 1971)
Release : 2024
Genre : Africa
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Book Rating : 163/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pahlavi Iran's Relations with Africa by : Robert Steele (Writer of The Shah's imperial celebrations of 1971)
Download or read book Pahlavi Iran's Relations with Africa written by Robert Steele (Writer of The Shah's imperial celebrations of 1971). This book was released on 2024. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examining Iran's political, cultural and economic interactions with Africa during the late Pahlavi period, this innovative book is intended for students and researchers of modern Iran and its foreign relations, as well as area studies scholars who specialise in Africa and the Middle East"--
Author : Robert Steele
Release : 2020-10-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 189/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971 by : Robert Steele
Download or read book The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971 written by Robert Steele. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they were regaled to sumptuous banquets and entertainment. Critical journalists in Western Europe and North America lambasted the Shah for holding such a decadent event while many of his people lived in poverty. Due to the overwhelmingly negative press at the time, the event is still today widely remembered as a catastrophic failure.It is even said by many to have sparked the unrest that eventually led to the revolution and the Shah's downfall in 1979. In this first comprehensive academic study of the 2500th Anniversary Celebrations, Robert Steele looks beyond the pomp and splendour to examine the events' origins, the goals the organisers set out to achieve with them and the extent to which these goals were accomplished. The book seeks to place the Celebrations in the context of the Shah's rise, rather than his fall, uncovering the unparalleled international cultural and scholarly operation that was spurred by the Iranian regime for the occasion, exploring the effects the event had on Iran's tourism industry and questioning narratives of the event's cost.
Author : Ray Takeyh
Release : 2021-01-26
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 79X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Last Shah by : Ray Takeyh
Download or read book The Last Shah written by Ray Takeyh. This book was released on 2021-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries "An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."--Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal "For the clearest view of Iran for the last 100 years, this book is it."--Marvin Zonis, author of Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power. This revolution was not, as many believe, the popular overthrow of a powerful and ruthless puppet of the United States; rather, it followed decades of corrosion of Iran's political establishment by an autocratic ruler who demanded fealty but lacked the personal strength to make hard decisions and, ultimately, lost the support of every sector of Iranian society. Esteemed Middle East scholar Ray Takeyh provides new interpretations of many key events--including the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq and the rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini--significantly revising our understanding of America and Iran's complex and difficult history.
Author : Haleh Esfandiari
Release : 1997-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 198/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reconstructed Lives by : Haleh Esfandiari
Download or read book Reconstructed Lives written by Haleh Esfandiari. This book was released on 1997-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iranian women tell in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. The Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life. For women, the consequences were extensive and profound, as the state set out to reverse legal and social rights women had won and to dictate many aspects of women's lives, including what they could study and how they must dress and relate to men. Reconstructed Lives presents Iranian women telling in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. Through a series of interviews with professional and working women in Iran—doctors, lawyers, writers, professors, secretaries, businesswomen—Haleh Esfandiari gathers dramatic accounts of what has happened to their lives as women in an Islamic society. She and her informants describe the strategies by which women try to and sometimes succeed in subverting the state's agenda. Esfandiari also provides historical background on the women's movement in Iran. She finds evidence in Iran's experience that even women from "traditional" and working classes do not easily surrender rights or access they have gained to education, career opportunities, and a public role.
