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The last empire of Iran / Michael R. Jackson Bonner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bonner, Michael Richard Jackson, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Gorgias handbooks
- Gorgias handbooks, 1935-6838
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sassanids.
- History.
- Sasanian dynasty, 224-651--History.
- Sasanian dynasty.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 396 pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2020.
- Summary:
- "As part of the Gorgias Handbook Series, this book provides a political and military history of the Sasanian Empire in Late Antiquity (220s to 651 CE). The book takes the form of a narrative, which situates Sasanian Iran as a continental power between Rome and the world of the steppe nomad"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Eurasia from the conquests of Alexander to the Fall of Parthia
- The establishment of the House of Sasan
- From Sharipur I to Sharipur II
- The world of the nomad
- Humiliation and heresy
- The Iranian recovery
- Triumph and tribulation
- The last war of antiquity
- The collapse of the House of Sasan
- Observations on the Fall of the Iranian Empire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bonner, Michael R. Jackson, The last empire of Iran
- ISBN:
- 9781463206161
- 146320616X
- OCLC:
- 1138997919
- Publisher Number:
- 99984205222
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