A History Of Persia (Volume 2)

by Sir Percy Sykes

Overview

This is a facsimile of a classic history first published by Macmillan in 1915 and issued in two further editions by Routledge and Kegan Paul. Sir Percy Sykes was an explorer, consul, soldier and a spy who lived and travelled in Persia over a period of twenty-five years. This two-volume collection provides a comprehensive history of Persia from Alexander the Great, through British, French and Russian colonialism, to the early twentieth century oil industry.

With a new introduction by Sykes' biographer, Antony Wynn, this comprehensive history provides essential background reading to students and academics of Persia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415680011
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/2011
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

L: The Golden Age of Islam; LI: The Decay of the Caliphate and the Revival of Persian Independence; LII: The Coming of the Seljuk Turks; LIII: The Disruption of the Seljuk Empire; LIV: Persian Literature Before the Mongol Invasion; LV: The Mongol Cataclysm; LVI: The Extinction of the Caliphate by Hulagu Khan; LVII: The Heathen Il-Khans of Persia; LVIII: Ghazan Khan, the Great Il-Khan; LIX: Tamerlane; LX: The Timurid Monarchs of Persia; LXI: Literature and Architecture Under the Mongols; LXII: The Rise of the Safavi Dynasty; LXIII: Shah Abbas the Great; LXIV: The struggle for Ascendancy in the Persian Gulf; LXV: Architecture and Art Under the Safavi Dynasty; LXVI: The Decline of the Safavi Dynasty; LXVII: The Ghilzais of Kandahar; LXVIII: The Overthrow of the Safavi Dynasty; LXIX: The Expulsion of the Afghans; LXX: The Rise of Nadir Kuli to the Throne of Persia; LXXI: The Conquests of Nadir Shah; LXXII: The Last Years of Nadir Shah; LXXIII: The Short-Lived Zand Dynasty; LXXIV: The Founding of the Kajar Dynasty; LXXV: British and French Missions at the Court of Fath Ali shah; LXXVI: The Disastrous Campaigns with Russia; LXXVII: Persian Aggression on Afghanistan; LXXVIII: The Final Settlement of the Perso-Afghan Question; LXXIX: The Envelopment of Persia; LXXX: The Awakening of Persia; LXXXI: The State of Persia Before the Revolution; LXXXII: The Granting of a Constitution to Persia; LXXXIII: An Attempt to Overthrow the Constitution; LXXXIV: The Failure of Constitutional Government; LXXXV: The First Year of the Great War; LXXXVI: 1916—A Year of Ebb and Flow; LXXXVII: The Restoration of Order in Southern Persia, I917; LXXXVIII: The Collapse of Russia and General dunsterville's Mission; LXXXIX: The Investment Of Shiraz by the Kashgais and Their Final Defeat; XC: Persia After the Great War