The Outbreak Of The Peloponnesian War

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467219

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The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:819683566

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Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467288

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New History of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an ebook-only omnibus edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Reviewing the four-volume set in The New Yorker, George Steiner wrote, "The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in the twentieth century is vivid. . . . Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers." All four volumes are also sold separately as both print books and ebooks.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007115068

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The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

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

Author : S. N. Jaffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192524744

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Thucydides on the Outbreak of War by S. N. Jaffe Pdf

The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in Sparta which rendered the Peloponnesian War somehow necessary, inevitable, or compulsory. In this new political psychological study of Thucydides' first book, S.N. Jaffe shows how the History's account of the outbreak of the war ultimately points toward the opposing characters of the Athenian and Spartan regimes, disclosing a Thucydidean preoccupation with the interplay between nature and convention. Jaffe explores how the character of the contest between Athens and Sparta, or how the outbreak of a particular war, can reveal Thucydides' account of the recurring human causes of war and peace. The political thought of Thucydides proves bound up with his distinctive understanding of the interrelationship of particular events and more universal themes.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0801426936

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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Pdf

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467264

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The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Pdf

"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in 404 B.C. Richly documented, precise in detail, it is also extremely well-written, linking it to a tradition of historical narrative that has become rare in our time." ― Virginia Quarterly Review In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the war, Kagan evaluates the performance of the Athenian democracy as it faced its most serious challenge. At the same time, Kagan assesses Thucydides' interpretation of the reasons for Athens’ defeat and the destruction of the Athenian Empire.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0801499852

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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Pdf

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588364906

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A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson Pdf

One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present. Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato. Hanson’s perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like America’s own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century’s “red state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present. Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385423755

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On the Origins of War by Donald Kagan Pdf

A brilliant and vitally important history of why states go to war, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Peloponnesian War. War has been a fact of life for centuries. By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous World Wars of the twentieth century, renowned historian Donald Kagan reveals new and surprising insights into the nature of war and peace. Vivid, incisive, and accessible, Kagan's powerful narrative warns against complacency and urgently reminds us of the importance of preparedness in times of peace.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467233

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The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

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 years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan focuses on political, economic, diplomatic, and military developments. He evaluates the strategies used by both sides and reconsiders the roles played by several key individuals.

Author : Peter R. Mansoor,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107136021

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Grand Strategy and Military Alliances by Peter R. Mansoor,Williamson Murray Pdf

A broad-ranging study of the relationship between alliances and the conduct of grand strategy, examined through historical case studies.

Author : E. Badian
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801844312

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From Plataea to Potidaea by E. Badian Pdf

From the Greek victory over Persian forces on the field of Plataea to the Athenian blockade of the rebel city of Potidaea - key events in the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, respectively - the half-century of Greek history known as the Pentecontaetia is an era for which sources are few and interpretation is controversial. Now, eminent historian E. Badian brings together six essays - one new and five revised for this volume - that shed new light on one of the key periods in the history of the ancient world. How was the Persian War finally settled, and what was the nature of the relationship that emerged between the two great powers of the Aegean, Athens and Persia? Is it possible to determine the sequence of events of the half-century between Xerxes' retreat and the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War? Should the general picture of Thucydides as the objective and "scientific" historian be revised, at least as far as this period is concerned? In addressing these and other questions, E. Badian provides the penetrating insights and rigorous scholarly argument, to which his readers have become accustomed.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467240

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The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan Pdf

Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467202

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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided?Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.