Iran: A People Interrupted - Rilegato

Dabashi, Hamid

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ISBN 10: 159558059X ISBN 13: 9781595580597

Casa editrice: New Pr, 2007

Riassunto

A leading Iranian scholar provides a political and cultural history of Iran over the last two centuries, offering an insightful analysis key recent events, cultural trends, and political developments, in a revealing look at a country marked by a determination to build a nuclear arsenal, vast oil reserves, rigid theocracy, and anti-Israeli and anti-American stance.

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Recensione:

"A lucid narrative of the last two hundred years of Iranian history." —Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University

"A brilliant scholarly analysis of the Iranian state of mind." —Hannah Hever, Hebrew University in Jerusalem

"An eye-opening consideration of a nation in need of understanding." —Kirkus Reviews

"Spectacular, important, and incisive . . . a crucial book for our times." —Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca College

"Open and intimate . . . the book cuts through the myths, past and present, that Americans have been told about Iran." —Susan Buck-Morss, Cornell University

L'autore:

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of highly acclaimed scholarly books and articles on Iran, medieval and modern Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, and philosophy of arts. Among the leading U.S. dissidents and a frequent lecturer around the globe, he lives in New York.

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• Editore: New Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 159558059X
• ISBN 13: 9781595580597
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 324