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“donald kagan”

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  • A New History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Donald Kagan ...
    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 ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Peloponnesian War

    by Donald Kagan ...
    Narrated by Bill Wallace ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 2 min

    For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century BC the ancient world was torn apart in a conflict that was, within its historical context, as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the great world wars of the twentieth century. The Peloponnesian War pitted Greek against Greek: the Athenians, with their glorious empire, rich legacy of democracy and political rights, and extraordinary ... Read more

    $39.15 CAD

  • The Archidamian War

    by Donald Kagan ...
    "The Archidamian War remains sober, judicious, and comprehensive. There is nothing else like it available in English―certainly nothing that takes all the modern scholarship into account.... But perhaps the most valuable achievement of the book is its carefully reasoned demolition of Thucydides's view―warmly embraced by too many scholars―that Pericles's war strategy was justifiable."— Peter Green ― ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

    by Donald Kagan ...
    "Kagan's book is a contribution of considerable distinction, scrupulously fair, carefully argued, and lucidly written. And, what is more, it is persuasive.... Kagan sets out the story in detail and with acumen. The case has been adumbrated before―but never presented with such thoroughness."―Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition

    by Donald Kagan ...
    "This is a solid piece of scholarship, a readable, consistent, and understandable account of a difficult period in Greek history, and rife with astute and provocative observations on Thucydides."― The HistorianWhy did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Men of Bronze

    Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece

    Edited by Donald Kagan, Gregory F. Viggiano ...
    Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was the driving force behind a revolution in Greek ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • New History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Donald Kagan ...

    Free

  • The Fall of the Athenian Empire

    by Donald Kagan ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

    by Donald Kagan ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    Donald Kagan-Yale's Sterling Professor of Classics and History-delivers a compelling new look at revisionism in Thucydides' classic History of the Peloponnesian War. To determine how accurate and dispassionate the Athenian general really was, Kagan exposes his epic to an enlightening and thorough analysis. Using contemporary and modern sources, Kagan reveals the exiled aristocrat's biases, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • While America Sleeps

    Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today

    by Donald Kagan, Frederick Kagan ...
    In While England Slept Winston Churchill revealed in 1938 how the inadequacy of Britain's military forces to cope with worldwide responsibilities in a peaceful but tense era crippled its ability to deter or even adequately prepare for World War II.In While America Sleeps, historians Donald and Frederick Kagan retrace Britain's international and defense policies during the years after World War I ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Ninth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

    Classic and Modern Science Fiction

    by Arthur C. Clarke, Kristine Kathryn Kristine Kathryn Rusch Rusch, Dan Simmons, Lester del Rey, Jay Lake, Donald E. Westlake, Janet Kagan, Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. ...
    "The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack" contains 27 more works spanning time and space--including 24 stories, 2 interviews, and "A Science Fiction Alphabet." Fun stuff indeed! Included are:INTERVIEW: DAN SIMMONS, conducted by Darrell SchweitzerTHE SPIRES OF DENON, by Kristine Kathryn RuschAIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG, by Brenda W. CloughFOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE! by Lester del ReyLUVVER, by Mack ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Increasing Legal Rights for Zoo Animals

    Justice on the Ark

    by Jesse Donahue, Susan Margulis, Michael Morris, Mary Murray, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Ron Kagan, Donald E. Moore III ...
    We are on the precipice of momentous legal changes for animals that may soon give some of them rights of personhood and citizenship. Companion animals in particular are gaining rights to public representation in government, access to housing, inheritance, and increased protection through the criminal justice system. Nonhuman primates used as research subjects are also gaining limited rights of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD