Iran in World History

IRANIAN ORIGINS: EARLY MIGRATIONS FROM CENTRAL ASIA
Anthony, David. 
The Horse, The Wheel and Language: How Bronze Age Riders 
from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton 
University Press, 2007.
Kuz’mina, Elena E. 
The Origin of the Indo-Iranians
. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Mallory, J. P. and D. Q. Adams. 
The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European 
and the Proto-Indo-European World
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Potts, D. T. 
The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient 
Iranian State
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE, 569–322 BCE
Briant, Pierre. 
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
. Warsaw, 
IN: Eisenbraun’s, 2002.
Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh and Sarah Stewart, eds. 
The Idea of Iran,
Volume 1: 
Birth of 
the Persian Empire
. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.

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Dandamaev, Muhammad A., and Vladimir G. Lukonin. 
The Culture and Social 
Institutions of Ancient Iran
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Henkelman, Wouter F. M. 
The Other Gods Who Are: Studies in Elamite-Iranian 
Acculturation Based on the Persepolis Fortification Texts
. Leiden: Nino, 2008.
THE SELEUCID AND PARTHIAN PERIODS, 322 BCE–224 CE
Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh, and Sarah Stewart, eds. 
The Idea of Iran,
Volume 2: 
The Age 
of the Parthians
. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007.
Sherwin-White, Susan, and Amélie Kuhrt. 
From Samarkand to Sardis
. 
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.