Donald Kagan
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- Bachelors History Brooklyn College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Donald Kagan was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.
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- On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (1996) (178)
- Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (1992) (154)
- The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (1969) (141)
- The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987) (96)
- Pericles of Athens and the birth of democracy (1990) (68)
- The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (1981) (60)
- The Peloponnesian war (2003) (51)
- The Origin and Purposes of Ostracism (1961) (47)
- Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece (2013) (44)
- The Dates of the Earliest Coins (1982) (40)
- The Western Heritage (1979) (27)
- Thucydides: The Reinvention of History (2009) (22)
- The great dialogue : history of Greek political thought from Homer to Polybius (1966) (22)
- Studies in the Greek Historians: The speeches in Thucydides and the Mytilene debate (1975) (21)
- Is major war obsolete? an exchange (1999) (19)
- While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (2000) (17)
- The Hoplite Debate (2013) (16)
- Roles and missions (1997) (9)
- Polis and polemos : essays on politics, war, and history in Ancient Greece, in honor of Donald Kagan (1997) (7)
- A New History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. I: The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. II: The Archidamian War. Vol. III: The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Vol. IV: The Fall of the Athenian Empire. (1992) (6)
- Corinthian Diplomacy after the Peace of Nicias (1960) (5)
- The End of the Roman Empire (1978) (4)
- Argive Politics and Policy after the Peace of Nicias (1962) (4)
- Decline and fall of the Roman Empire : why did it collapse? (1962) (4)
- Croix. The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1975) (3)
- Xerxes at Salamis (1971) (3)
- Great Issues In Western Civilization (1976) (3)
- Problems in ancient history (1966) (2)
- Studies in the Greek historians : in memory of Adam Parry (1975) (2)
- The End of Wars as the Basis for a Lasting Peace—A Look at the Great Wars of the Twentieth Century (2000) (2)
- The end of the Roman Empire : decline or transformation? (1978) (2)
- The Western heritage: Since 1300 (1983) (2)
- CHAPTER 1. The Hoplite Debate (2013) (1)
- Response to Trachtenberg (2012) (1)
- Problems in The History of Ancient Greece: Sources and Interpretation (2009) (1)
- 2. Pericles, Thucydides, and the Defense of Empire (2010) (1)
- The Sidney Hook memorial award address: Why we should study Western civilization (1995) (1)
- The Western Heritage, Combined Volume (2006) (1)
- The greening of environmental PR (1991) (1)
- Studies in the Greek Historians (2009) (1)
- Human Rights, Moralism, and Foreign Policy (1983) (1)
- The Ancient World, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 500 (1966) (1)
- While America Sleeps: Viewpoint (2012) (1)
- What is history : fact or fancy? (1967) (1)
- Introduction to Ancient Greek History (2013) (1)
- Yale University: Testing the limits (1991) (1)
- Politics and policy in Corinth, 421-336 B.C (1958) (1)
- Sources in Greek political thought from Homer to Polybius (1965) (1)
- The western heritage/Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turnei (2010) (0)
- The Medieval Mind-Faith or Reason (1957) (0)
- Book Review:Aristotle's History of Athenian Democracy James Day, Mortimer Chambers (1964) (0)
- Simon Hornblower. Thucydides. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1987. Pp. ix, 230. $25.00 (1989) (0)
- “The Greek “Renaissance–Colonization” and “The Greek “Renaissance–Colonization (cont.)” (2008) (0)
- The origins Nazi Germany : German history or charismatic leadership? (1967) (0)
- Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle (2010) (0)
- Since 1500 from renaissance civilization through the cold war (1992) (0)
- World Civilizations: AP Edition: ÒChapter 36: Globalization and Resistance, World History, 1990-2003 QuizzesÓ (2009) (0)
- Ammianus and the Historia Augusta. By Sir Ronald Syme. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1968. Pp. viii, 237. $6.25.) (1969) (0)
- New History of the Peloponnesian War (2013) (0)
- Humanities and Sciences in Harvard: What Caused a Crisis? (2006) (0)
- Pericles, Tucídides y la defensa del imperio (2012) (0)
- “The Rise of the Polis” and “The Rise of the Polis (cont.)” (2008) (0)
- The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century (review) (2005) (0)
- Studies in the Greek Historians: Preface (1975) (0)
- “Twilight of the Polis” and “Twilight of the Polis (cont.)” (2008) (0)
- Book Review:Aristote: "Politique," Livres I et II Jean Aubonnet (1963) (0)
- From Louis XIV through the Cold War (1992) (0)
- J. T. Hooker. The Ancient Spartans. London: J. M. Dent and Sons; distributed by Biblio Distribution Center, Totowa, N.J. 1980. Pp. 254. $29.50 (1981) (0)
- “The Peloponnesian War, Part I” and “The Peloponnesian War, Part I (cont.)” (2008) (0)
- Book Review:La fin de la democratie athenienne Claude Mosse (1964) (0)
- World Civilizations: AP Edition: ÒChapter 32: Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War Quizzes "and ÒChapter 34: Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence QuizzesÓ (2009) (0)
- “The Dark Ages” and “The Dark Ages (cont.)” (2008) (0)
- Book Review (2005) (0)
- Renaissance man - medieval or modern? (1967) (0)
- World Civilizations: AP Edition: ÒChapter 29: The World in the 1920s: Challenges to European Dominance QuizzesÓ and ÒChapter 30: The Great Depression and the Authoritarian Response QuizzesÓ (2009) (0)
- THE HISTORY OE WESTERN CIVILIZATION (2014) (0)
- Iannone, Carol: National Council on the Humanities Nomination (1991): Correspondence 16 (1991) (0)
- From Ancient Egypt through Louis XIV (1992) (0)
- “The Athenian Empire” and “The Athenian Empire (cont.)” (2008) (0)
- Thucydides, His Critics and Interpreters@@@Thucydides on the Nature of Power@@@The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War@@@Individuals in Thucydides (1971) (0)
- charles william fornara. The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome. (Eidos, Studies in Classical Kinds.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1983. Pp. xiv, 215. $22.00 (1984) (0)
- “The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece” and “The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece (cont.)” (2008) (0)
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