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The Western Heritage: Volume 2 (10th Edition)

by Donald M. Kagan , Steven Ozment , Frank M. Turner
Paperback |English |0205705162 | 9780205705160

The Western Heritage: Volume 2 (10th Edition)

by Donald M. Kagan , Steven Ozment , Frank M. Turner
Paperback |English |0205705162 | 9780205705160
Overview
Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received the A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, the M.A. in classics from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958–1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought,The Great Dialogue(1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war,The Origins of the Peloponnesian War(1969);The Archidamian War(1974);The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition(1981);The Fall of the Athenian Empire(1987); a biography of Pericles,Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy(1991);On the Origins of War(1995); andThe Peloponnesian War(2003). He is coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, ofWhile America Sleeps(2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor ofGreat Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004. Steven Ozmentis McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of eleven books.The Age of Reform, 1250—1550(1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club:Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe(1986),Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany(1990),Protestants: The Birth of A Revolution(1992),The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town(1996), andFlesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany(1999). His most recent publications areAncestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe(2001),A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People(2004), and “Why We Study Western Civ,”The Public Interest 158(2005). Frank M. Turneris John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He has directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974),The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain  (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award, Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life  (1993), and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion  (2002). He has also contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He editedThe Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (1996),Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke (2003), andApologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermonsby John Henry Newman (2008). Between l996 and 2006 he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between 2004 and 2008 as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
ISBN: 0205705162
ISBN13: 9780205705160
Author: Donald M. Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner
Publisher: Pearson
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2009-07-04
Language: English
Edition: 10
PageCount: 736
Dimensions: 9.0 x 0.97 x 10.72 inches
Weight: 43.2 ounces
Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received the A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, the M.A. in classics from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958–1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought,The Great Dialogue(1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war,The Origins of the Peloponnesian War(1969);The Archidamian War(1974);The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition(1981);The Fall of the Athenian Empire(1987); a biography of Pericles,Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy(1991);On the Origins of War(1995); andThe Peloponnesian War(2003). He is coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, ofWhile America Sleeps(2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor ofGreat Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004. Steven Ozmentis McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of eleven books.The Age of Reform, 1250—1550(1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club:Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe(1986),Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany(1990),Protestants: The Birth of A Revolution(1992),The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town(1996), andFlesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany(1999). His most recent publications areAncestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe(2001),A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People(2004), and “Why We Study Western Civ,”The Public Interest 158(2005). Frank M. Turneris John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He has directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974),The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain  (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award, Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life  (1993), and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion  (2002). He has also contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He editedThe Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (1996),Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke (2003), andApologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermonsby John Henry Newman (2008). Between l996 and 2006 he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between 2004 and 2008 as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

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Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received the A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, the M.A. in classics from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958–1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought,The Great Dialogue(1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war,The Origins of the Peloponnesian War(1969);The Archidamian War(1974);The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition(1981);The Fall of the Athenian Empire(1987); a biography of Pericles,Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy(1991);On the Origins of War(1995); andThe Peloponnesian War(2003). He is coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, ofWhile America Sleeps(2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor ofGreat Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004. Steven Ozmentis McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of eleven books.The Age of Reform, 1250—1550(1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club:Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe(1986),Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany(1990),Protestants: The Birth of A Revolution(1992),The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town(1996), andFlesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany(1999). His most recent publications areAncestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe(2001),A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People(2004), and “Why We Study Western Civ,”The Public Interest 158(2005). Frank M. Turneris John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He has directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974),The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain  (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award, Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life  (1993), and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion  (2002). He has also contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He editedThe Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (1996),Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke (2003), andApologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermonsby John Henry Newman (2008). Between l996 and 2006 he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between 2004 and 2008 as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
ISBN: 0205705162
ISBN13: 9780205705160
Author: Donald M. Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner
Publisher: Pearson
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2009-07-04
Language: English
Edition: 10
PageCount: 736
Dimensions: 9.0 x 0.97 x 10.72 inches
Weight: 43.2 ounces
Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received the A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, the M.A. in classics from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958–1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought,The Great Dialogue(1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war,The Origins of the Peloponnesian War(1969);The Archidamian War(1974);The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition(1981);The Fall of the Athenian Empire(1987); a biography of Pericles,Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy(1991);On the Origins of War(1995); andThe Peloponnesian War(2003). He is coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, ofWhile America Sleeps(2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor ofGreat Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004. Steven Ozmentis McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of eleven books.The Age of Reform, 1250—1550(1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club:Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe(1986),Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany(1990),Protestants: The Birth of A Revolution(1992),The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town(1996), andFlesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany(1999). His most recent publications areAncestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe(2001),A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People(2004), and “Why We Study Western Civ,”The Public Interest 158(2005). Frank M. Turneris John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He has directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974),The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain  (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award, Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life  (1993), and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion  (2002). He has also contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He editedThe Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (1996),Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke (2003), andApologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermonsby John Henry Newman (2008). Between l996 and 2006 he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between 2004 and 2008 as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

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