Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic

by Michael Axworthy

Book Overview

In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's leadership...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190468963
• ISBN13: 9780190468965
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"