The Decline of Iranshahr

ISBN: 9781784533182 出版年：2015 页码：366 Peter Christensen Bloomsbury Publishing

The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the registeady and prolonged decline: populations decreased, ancient cities decayed and nomadism spread at the expense of civilized culture. In this pioneering text Peter Christensen challenges this story of declinprint but now reissued with a new introduction by the author, this important work is both a foundationenvironmental history of the Middle East and a pioneering reassessment of traditional ideas about the historical processes of Iran and the Middle East region.