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Author : Peter Christensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772892597
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Decline of Iranshahr written by Peter Christensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Christensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838609369
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book The Decline of Iranshahr written by Peter Christensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region went into a steady and prolonged decline: populations decreased, ancient cities decayed and nomadism spread at the expense of civilized culture. In this pioneering text Peter Christensen challenges this story of decline. Long out of print but now reissued with a new introduction by the author, this important work is both a foundational text in the environmental history of the Middle East and a pioneering reassessment of traditional ideas about the historical processes of Iran and the Middle East region.
Author : Peter Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350988590
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)
Download or read book The Decline of Iranshahr written by Peter Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region went into a steady and prolonged decline: populations decreased, ancient cities decayed and nomadism spread at the expense of civilized culture. In this pioneering text Peter Christensen challenges this story of decline. Long out of print but now reissued with a new introduction by the author, this important work is both a foundational text in the environmental history of the Middle East and a pioneering reassessment of traditional ideas about the historical processes of Iran and the Middle East region."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author : Parvaneh Pourshariati
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786729814
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire written by Parvaneh Pourshariati and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a convincing contemporary answer to an age-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century ce, did the seemingly powerful and secure Sasanian empire of Persia succumb so quickly and disastrously to the all-conquering armies of Islam? In her bold solution to this enigma, Parvaneh Pourshariati explains that the decentralized dynastic system of the Sasanian ruling hierarchy in fact contained the seeds of its own destruction. This confederacy, whose powerbase relied on patronage and preferment, eventually became unstable, and its degeneration sealed the fate of a doomed dynasty.
Author : Rudolph P. Matthee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521641319
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran written by Rudolph P. Matthee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbours and the world at large, through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade. In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource crucial to state revenue and the only commodity to span Iran's entire economic activity, was integral to aspects of late Safavid society, including its approach to commerce, export routes and, importantly, to the political and economic problems which contributed to its collapse in the early 1700s. In a challenge to traditional scholarship, the author argues that despite the introduction of a maritime, western-dominated channel, Iran's traditional land-based silk export continued to expand right up to the end of the seventeenth century. The book makes a major theoretical contribution to the debates on the social and economic history of the pre-modern world.
Author : Ronnie Ellenblum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560980
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean written by Ronnie Ellenblum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilizations and cultural centres of the time. This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events - such as recurrent drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and the decline in population in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - are connected and should be understood within the broad context of climate change. Drawing on a wealth of textual and archaeological evidence, Ronnie Ellenblum explores the impact of climatic and ecological change across the eastern Mediterranean in this period, to offer a new perspective on why this was a turning point in the history of the Islamic world.
Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190864745
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Humans versus Nature written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment. Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist, rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance. Daniel R. Headrick shows how environmental changes--epidemics, climate shocks, and volcanic eruptions--have molded human societies and cultures, sometimes overwhelming them. At the same time, he traces the history of anthropogenic changes in the environment--species extinctions, global warming, deforestation, and resource depletion--back to the age of hunters and gatherers and the first farmers and herders. He shows how human interventions such as irrigation systems, over-fishing, and the Industrial Revolution have in turn harmed the very societies that initiated them. Throughout, Headrick examines how human-driven environmental changes are interwoven with larger global systems, dramatically reshaping the complex relationship between people and the natural world. In doing so, he roots the current environmental crisis in the deep past.
Author : Mansoor Moaddel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226533336
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism written by Mansoor Moaddel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative historical analysis of the social changes that have affected the Islamic world in modern times & of the failure to achieve consensus on important social issues such as the form of government, the status of women, national identity & rule making.
Author : Peter Edwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061268
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Rome and Persia at War written by Peter Edwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centuries AD. During this period, military conflict between Rome and Sasanian Persia was at a level and depth not seen mostly during the Parthian period. At the same time, contact between the two empires increased markedly and contributed in part to an increased level of conflict. Edwell examines both war and peace – diplomacy, trade and religious contact – as the means through which these two powers competed, and by which they sought to gain, maintain and develop control of territories and peoples who were the source of dispute between the two empires. The volume also analyses internal factors in both empires that influenced conflict and competition between them, while the roles of regional powers such as the Armenians, Palmyrenes and Arabs in conflict and contact between the two "super powers" receive special attention. Using a broad array of sources, this book gives special attention to the numismatic evidence as it has tended to be overshadowed in modern studies by the literary and epigraphic sources. This is the first monograph in English to undertake an in-depth and critical analysis of competition and contact between Rome and the early Sasanians in the Near East in the third and fourth centuries AD using literary, archaeological, numismatic and epigraphic evidence, and one which includes the complete range of mechanisms by which the two powers competed. It is an invaluable study for anyone working on Rome, Persia and the wider Near East in Late Antiquity.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900451337X
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Baghdād written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baghdād: From its Beginnings to the 14th Century offers an exhaustive handbook that covers all possible themes connected to the history of this urban complex in Iraq, from its origins rooted in late antique Mesopotamia up to the aftermath of the Mongol invasion in 1258. Against the common perception of a city founded 762 in a vacuum, which, after experiencing a heyday in a mythical “golden age” under the early ʿAbbāsids, entered since 900 a long period of decline that ended with a complete collapse by savage people from the East in 1258, the volume emphasizes the continuity of Baghdād’s urban life, and shows how it was marked by its destiny as caliphal seat and cultural hub. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpınar, Nuha Alshaar, Pavel Basharin, David Bennett, Michal Biran, Richard W. Bulliet, Kirill Dmitriev, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Beatrice Gruendler, Sebastian Günther, Olof Heilo, Damien Janos, Christopher Melchert, Michael Morony, Bernard O’Kane, Klaus Oschema, Letizia Osti, Parvaneh Pourshariati, Vanessa van Renterghem, Jens Scheiner, Angela Schottenhammer, Y. Zvi Stampfer, Johannes Thomann, Isabel Toral.
Author : Touraj Daryaee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460616
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book From Oxus to Euphrates written by Touraj Daryaee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a synthetical and student-friendly introduction to Sasanian studies.
Author : Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857719726
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Sasanian Era written by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series concentrates on the Sasanian period. Seizing power from the previous dynasty - the Parthians - the Sasanians ruled Iran and most of the ancient Near East from 224 until 642 CE. They are particularly fascinating because of their adherence to Zoroastrianism, an ancient dualistic Iranian religion named after the prophet Zarathustra (or, in Greek, Zoroaster). The Sasanians expressed the divine aspect of their rule in a variety of forms, such as on coins, rock reliefs and silver plates, and architecture and the arts flourished under their aegis. Sasanian military success brought them into conflict with Rome, and later Byzantium. Their empire eventually collapsed under the force of the Arab army in AD 642, when Zoroastrianism was replaced with Islam.Engaging with all the major aspects of Sasanian culture, twelve eminent scholars address subjects which include: early Sasanian art and iconography; early Sasanian coinage; religion and identity in the Sasanian empire; later Sasanian orality and literacy; and state and society in late antique Iran. The volume in question arguably comprises the most complete and comprehensive treatment of the Sasanian civilization yet to be published in English.
Author : Maria Subtelny
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004160310
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Timurids in Transition written by Maria Subtelny and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the Weberian concept of the routinization of charisma, the book examines the transformation of the nomadic empire of Tamerlane into a sedentary polity based on the Perso-Islamic model by focusing on the reign of the last Timurid ruler Sul n-?usain Bayqara in fifteenth-century Iran.
Author : Brian Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199333807
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World written by Brian Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook gathers 38 leading historians to describe, analyze, and interpret warfare and its effects in classical Greece and Rome.
Author : John L. Brooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521871646
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Climate Change and the Course of Global History written by John L. Brooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity.
Author : Ulrich Brian Ulrich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147443682X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Arabs in the Early Islamic Empire written by Ulrich Brian Ulrich and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a single broad tribal identity - al-Azd - from the immediate pre-Islamic period into the early Abbasid era, this book notes the ways it was continually refashioned over that time. It explores the ways in which the rise of the early Islamic empire influenced the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula who became a core part of it, and examines the connections between the kinship societies and the developing state of the early caliphate. This helps us to understand how what are often called 'tribal' forms of social organisation identity conditioned its growth and helped shape what became its common elite culture.Studying the relationship between tribe and state during the first two centuries of the caliphate, author Brian Ulrich's focus is on understanding the survival and transformation of tribal identity until it became part of the literate high culture of the Abbasid caliphate and a component of a larger Arab ethnic identity. He argues that, from pre-Islamic Arabia to the caliphate, greater continuity existed between tribal identity and social practice than is generally portrayed.
Author : Getzel M. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273826
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India written by Getzel M. Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Getzel CohenÕs important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the Great, his successors and others, Greek and Macedonian culture spread deep into Asia, with colonists settling as far away as Bactria and India. In this book, Cohen provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the Graeco-Macedonian settlements founded (or refounded) in the East. Organized geographically, Cohen pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of widely scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects, making a distinct contribution to ongoing questions and opening new avenues of inquiry.
