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Persian Revolution 1905-1909, 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Persian Revolution 1905-1909, 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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"Many dangers and many anxious days lie before the new Persia."
Almost a century later, Edward Browne's fears and hopes have a
special resonance in the minds of contemporary readers. The Persian
Revolution of 1905-1909, has maintained its relevance and
freshness, even after the occurrence of a revolution more intense
and all-embracing than the Constitutional Revolution. Furthermore,
the aspirations of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 were a distant
protest against the failure of that earlier revolution. Edward
Browne was a professor of Persian studies at Cambridge University
who had written A Year Amongst the Persians and the four-volume
Literary History of Persia. What he primarily intended to achieve
in The Persian Revolution was to demonstrate to his readers that
the tumultuous events they were witnessing in Iran, often with
suspicion if not disdain, were in fact no less than a genuine
struggle by an oppressed and impoverished nation to establish a
constitutional order despite the overwhelming odds of domestic
tyranny, foreign intervention, and ideological divisions. He strove
to serve as a voice in the West for the Persian Constitutionalists.
The Persian Revolution was more than a simple record of a
revolution, for it influenced the very course of events it covered
in its pages. This new edition of the book first published in 1910
features an introduction by Abbas Amanat, a professor of History at
Yale University, as well as a section featuring Browne's
correspondences and contemporary reviews of the book. Also included
are 56 period photographs. This is an essential volume for anyone
attempting to understand Persia's past and present.
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