{"product_id":"modern-iran-samuel-corwin-9798950192210","title":"Modern Iran: From the Last Shah to the Women's Revolution - A Century of Oil, Upheaval, and Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe essential modern history of Iran - from empire's collapse to women's uprising.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, Iran has sat at the center of global headlines - nuclear negotiations, revolution, war, sanctions, protest - yet remains deeply misunderstood by the outside world. \u003cem\u003eModern Iran: From the Last Shah to the Women's Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e changes that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this sweeping, authoritative, and compulsively readable history, readers are taken from the dying days of the Qajar dynasty through the iron modernization of Reza Shah, the CIA-backed coup that overthrew democracy in 1953, the Shah's doomed White Revolution, and the 1979 revolution that remade the Middle East. The story continues through the hostage crisis, the devastating eight-year war with Iraq, the rise and fall of the reformists, the nuclear standoffs, and finally the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising - the most significant challenge to the Islamic Republic in its history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book of dry dates and political abstractions. It is the story of a proud, brilliant, and turbulent nation - its rulers and its dissidents, its oil and its ideology, its ancient civilization and its unfinished revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders of \u003cem\u003eAll the Shah's Men\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA History of Modern Iran\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone following Iran's role in today's Middle East\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudents and scholars of twentieth-century history and geopolitics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Iranian diaspora seeking to understand their nation's full story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eModern Iran\u003c\/em\u003e is the book this moment demands - urgent, essential, and impossible to put down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Corwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798950192210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Absorbing History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Samuel Corwin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801590083839,"sku":"9798950192210","price":16.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modern-iran-samuel-corwin-9798950192210","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}