The Western Heritage, Vol 2

by Donald Kagan, Steven E. Ozment, Frank M. Turner

Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and balanced narrative of the central developments in Western history. Seamlessly integrating coverage of social, cultural and political history, this text is presented in a flexible chronological organization. The new Ninth Edition provides updated scholarship, expanded coverage of cultural history, the ancient Near East, late antiquity, imperialism, and the Holocaust.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Textbooks

639 pages, Paperback

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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