Books by Donald Kagan

Never has the story of the difficult birth of the world's first democracy had more to say to us than now. This masterful biography of Pericles, the ... More

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Kagan, one of the foremost classics scholars, illuminates the historian Thucydides and his greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," both by examining ... More

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Why do men go to war? Are there underlying laws that explain why one nation challenges another to mass bloodshed? Are there underlying laws that ... More

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Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and balanced narrative of the central developments in Western ... More

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The timely message that "peace does not preserve itself" opens this study of the origins of mankind's greatest and most destructive wars. The author, ... More

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A new evaluation of the origins and causes of the Peloponnesian War, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful ... More

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This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten ... More

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In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' ... More

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In the third volume of his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and ... More

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One of the world's foremost historians presents a fresh look at the greatest war of ancient Greece and a pivotal moment in Western civilization that ... More

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This authoritative book presents an engaging and accessible narrative account of the central developments in Western history from 1300-1815. ... More

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This authoritative book presents an engaging and accessible narrative account of the central developments in Western history to 1527. Seamlessly ... More

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For today's busy student, we've created a new line of highly portable books at affordable prices. Each title in the Books a la Carte Plus program ... More

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The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient ... More

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This highly visual "brief" survey of Western civilization presents an exceptionally balanced survey of the political, social, and cultural ... More

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This booklet is a brief guide to reading effectively that provides students with helpful strategies for reading a history textbook.

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This authoritative book presents an engaging and accessible narrative account of the central developments in Western history since 1789. Seamlessly ... More

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The Student Telecourse Guide by Jay Boggis correlates The Western Heritage with the Annenberg/CPB telecourse, The Western Tradition.

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