List of Figures.
List of Dynistic Tables.
List of Maps.
Acknowledgments.
Dynastic Tables.
Maps.
1. Persia: Place and Idea.
2.The Achaemenians (c.550–331 BC).
3. Alexander (330–323 BC), the Selucids (312–129 BC), and the Parthians (247 BC–AD 224).
4. The Sasanians (c.224–651).
5. “Non-Iran”: Arabs, Turks, and Mongols in Iran.
6. The Safavids (1501–1722).
7. The Qajars (1796–1926).
8. Iran: 1921–2003: Pahlavi and Islamic Republican Iran.
Notes.
Further Reading.
Index.
Gene R. Garthwaite is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Khans and Shahs: A Documentary Analysis of the Bakhtiyari in Iran (1983).
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year "This book is not a dry historical narrative but an excellent, rigorous, yet generally accessible overview of Persians in history based on the latest scholarship on Iranian society and History. Essential." (Choice)
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