book chapter
Historical setting
Iran: a country study • Washington D.c. • Published In 1989 • Pages: 1-70, 309-315
By: Bakhash, Shaul, Library Of Congress. Federal Research Division.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a detailed study of Iran's history from about the middle of the second millennium B.C. to 1985 A.D. The historical data ranges from Iran's first empire, the Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century B. C through the reign of the shahs Reza Khan and his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Iranian revolution and the rise to power of the religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the seizure of the United States' embassy in 1979, and the post-Khomeini period in Iran up to 1985.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Economic planning and development
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Deliberative councils
- External relations
- Political parties
- Political movements
- Revolution
- Offenses against the state
- Priesthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iran
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2000 B.C.-1985 A.D.
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Shaul Bakhash
- Supt. Docs. No.:D101.22.:550-68/987
- 'Research completed December 1987.'
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-315)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88600484
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians