Each chapter opens with a compelling biographical sketch that gives the book's ideas a vibrant, human face.Europe in the Modern World pays considerably more attention to economic history than other textbooks do,
This history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in 19th-century Qajar Iran (known to Westerners as Persia), and how it provided a mood and attitude which led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a new government in 1906....