For courses in history of Western civilization An authoritative account of Western civilizations
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Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received his A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, his M.A. in classics from Brown University, and his Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958 to 1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought,
The Great Dialogue (1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war,
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1969);
The Archidamian War (1974);
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (1981);
The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987); a biography of Pericles,
Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991);
On the Origins of War (1995); and
The Peloponnesian War (2003). He is the coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, of
While America Sleeps (2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor of
Great Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004.
Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of twelve books, including
When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (1983).
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club:
Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe (1986),
Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany (1990),
Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution (1992),
The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town (1996), and
Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany (1999). His most recent publications are
Ancestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe (2001),
A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (2004), "Why We Study Western Civ,"
The Public Interest, 158 (2005), and
The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation (2011).
Frank M. Turner was John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of
Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974);
The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award;
Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life (1993); and
John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion (2002). He also contributed numerous articles to journals and served on the editorial advisory boards of
The Journal of Modern History,
Isis, and
Victorian Studies. He edited
The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman (1996),
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (2003), and A
pologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons by John Henry Newman (2008). He served as a Trustee of Connecticut College from 1996-2006. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
Contributor
Gregory F. Viggiano received his Ph.D. in classics from Yale University and is Associate Professor of History at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he teaches courses on ancient Greece and Rome and Western civilization. With Donald Kagan, he authored of
Problems in the History of Ancient Greece (2009) and edited
Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece (2013), which has been translated into Spanish (2017). He has published chapters and articles on ancient Greek history and is currently editing
A Cultural History of War in Antiquity. He joined the authorship team of
The Western Heritage during preparation of the 12th Edition for publication.
唐納德·卡根是耶魯大學的史學與古典學斯特林教授,自1969年以來一直在該校任教。他在布魯克林學院獲得歷史學學士學位,在布朗大學獲得古典學碩士學位,並在俄亥俄州立大學獲得歷史學博士學位。1958年至1959年期間,他作為富布萊特學者在美國古典研究學校學習。他曾獲得康奈爾大學和耶魯大學的三項本科教學獎。他是希臘政治思想史的作者,著作包括《偉大的對話》(1965年);四卷本的《伯羅奔尼撒戰爭史》,包括《伯羅奔尼撒戰爭的起源》(1969年);《阿基達米安戰爭》(1974年);《尼基亞和平與西西里遠征》(1981年);《雅典帝國的衰亡》(1987年);對伯里克利的傳記《雅典的伯里克利與民主的誕生》(1991年);《戰爭的起源》(1995年);以及《伯羅奔尼撒戰爭》(2003年)。他與弗雷德里克·W·卡根共同撰寫了《美國沉睡時》(2000年)。與布萊恩·蒂爾尼和L·皮爾斯·威廉姆斯共同編輯了《西方文明中的重大議題》,這是一部閱讀文集。他於2002年獲得國家人文獎章,並於2004年被國家人文基金會選中發表傑佛遜講座。
史蒂文·奧茲門特是哈佛大學古代與現代歷史的麥克林教授。他曾在耶魯大學、斯坦福大學和哈佛大學教授西方文明。他是十二本書的作者,包括《當父親統治:宗教改革歐洲的家庭生活》(1983年)。《改革的時代,1250-1550》(1980年)獲得沙夫獎並被提名為1981年全國圖書獎。他的五本書曾被歷史書俱樂部選中,包括《瑪格達萊娜與巴爾塔薩:十六世紀歐洲生活的親密肖像》(1986年)、《三位貝海姆男孩:早期現代德國的成長》(1990年)、《新教徒:革命的誕生》(1992年)、《市長的女兒:十六世紀德國小鎮的醜聞》(1996年)和《肉體與精神:早期現代德國的私人生活》(1999年)。他最近的出版物包括《祖先:古歐洲的愛的家庭》(2001年)、《堅固的堡壘:德國人民的新歷史》(2004年)、《為什麼我們學習西方文明》,《公共利益》,158(2005年)和《蛇與羔羊:克拉納赫、路德與宗教改革的形成》(2011年)。
法蘭克·M·特納曾是耶魯大學的約翰·海·惠特尼歷史教授及耶魯大學貝尼基珍稀書籍與手稿圖書館的館長,並於1988年至1992年擔任大學教務長。他在威廉與瑪麗學院獲得學士學位,並在耶魯大學獲得博士學位。他獲得耶魯學院傑出本科教學獎。他曾指導國家人文基金會的夏季研究所。他的學術研究得到了國家人文基金會、古根海姆基金會和伍德羅·威爾遜中心的獎學金支持。他是《科學與宗教之間:維多利亞晚期英國對科學自然主義的反應》(1974年);《維多利亞時期英國的希臘遺產》(1981年),該書獲得英國研究會的英國委員會獎和耶魯出版社的州長獎;《挑戰文化權威:維多利亞知識生活的論文》(1993年);以及《約翰·亨利·紐曼:對福音宗教的挑戰》(2002年)的作者。他還為多本期刊撰寫了大量文章,並在《現代歷史期刊》、《伊西斯》和《維多利亞研究》的編輯顧問委員會任職。他編輯了約翰·亨利·紐曼的《大學的理念》(1996年)、埃德蒙·伯克的《法國革命的反思》(2003年)和約翰·亨利·紐曼的《為自己的生命辯護及六篇講道》(2008年)。他於1996年至2006年擔任康涅狄格學院的受託人。2003年,特納教授被任命為耶魯大學貝尼基珍稀書籍與手稿圖書館的館長。
貢獻者 格雷戈里·F·維吉亞諾在耶魯大學獲得古典學博士學位,並是康涅狄格州費爾菲爾德的聖心大學歷史副教授,教授古希臘和羅馬及西方文明的課程。他與唐納德·卡根共同撰寫了《古希臘歷史中的問題》(2009年),並編輯了《青銅之人:古希臘的重裝步兵戰爭》(2013年),該書已翻譯成西班牙語(2017年)。他已發表有關古希臘歷史的章節和文章,並目前正在編輯《古代戰爭的文化歷史》。他在準備第12版出版時加入了《西方遺產》的作者團隊。