Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

Name: Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
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ISBN: 9780801495564

ISBN-10: 0801495563

ISBN-13: 9780801495564

Edition: 2013

Authors: Donald Kagan

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Kagan offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the Peloponnesian War, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagagn takes issue with Thucydides's view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 1/16/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English