The Western Heritage, Volume 2

by Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank Turner

This highly visual brief survey of Western civilization presents a survey of the political, social, and cultural developments in Western history--both strengths and weaknesses, as well as the controversies surrounding it.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Textbooks

704 pages, Unbound

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Donald Kagan (May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.

Reviews

[Chad Lamb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good history textbook.

[Josiah Sutton · Rating 3 out of 5]

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