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On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace
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On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace Paperback - 1996

by Kagan, Donald

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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 20th century and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kagan reveals new insights into the nature of war--and peace--that are vitally important and often surprising.

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  • Title On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace
  • Author Kagan, Donald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition UsedAcceptable
  • Pages 624
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York
  • Date January 1, 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2Y6OIV005IAE_ns
  • ISBN 9780385423755 / 0385423756
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.38 x 1.33 in (20.42 x 13.67 x 3.38 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Military history, War - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94012250
  • Dewey Decimal Code 904.7

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-589) and index.

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FOR ALMOST THREE decades at the end of the fifth century B.C. the Athenians and their allies fought the Spartans and theirs in a terrible war that changed the Greek world and its civilization forever.

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About the author

Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. A former dean of Yale College, he received his Ph.D. in 1958 from The Ohio State University. His publications include On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, The Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides: The Reinvention of History. In 2002 he was the recipient of the National Humanities Medal and in 2005 was named the National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecturer.

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