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On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace »
Authors: Donald Kagan
ISBN-13: 9780385423755, ISBN-10: 0385423756
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Donald Kagan
Book Synopsis
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 ...
Richard Bernstein
"On the Origins of War" is a remarkable study in historical juxtaposition and analogy. . . . Mr. Kagan's undertaking is valuable and compelling because it distills so much history into so clear and transparent a liquid. -- New York Times
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Peloponnesian War 431-404 B.C. | 15 |
| The Hegemonic Powers and Their Alliances | 19 | |
| The Origin of the Rivalry | 27 | |
| The Peace | 31 | |
| Testing the Peace | 34 | |
| The Crisis | 37 | |
| The Crisis Widens | 41 | |
| The Decision for War: Sparta | 51 | |
| The Decision for War: Athens | 59 | |
| The Outbreak of War | 67 | |
| The Causes of the War | 68 | |
| 2 | The First World War 1914-1918 | 81 |
| The Emergence of Germany and the Challenge to the Old Order | 83 | |
| The European Powers | 85 | |
| Bismarck's Era | 100 | |
| The Character of the Peace | 114 | |
| Testing the Peace | 119 | |
| The Road to War | 145 | |
| The Final Crisis | 183 | |
| The Causes of the War | 205 | |
| 3 | Hannibal's War: The Second Punic War 218-201 B.C. | 232 |
| The Nature of the Opponents | 234 | |
| The Origins of the First Punic War | 248 | |
| The Peace | 252 | |
| Testing the Peace | 256 | |
| The Accession of Hannibal | 260 | |
| The Crisis | 262 | |
| The Causes of the War | 269 | |
| 4 | The Second World War 1939-1945 | 281 |
| The End of the First World War | 281 | |
| The Peace | 285 | |
| Testing the Peace, 1919-1933 | 297 | |
| The Road to War | 334 | |
| The Causes of the War | 413 | |
| 5 | The Cuban Missile Crisis | 437 |
| The Cold War | 437 | |
| Khrushchev Comes to Power | 447 | |
| Castro and Cuba | 452 | |
| Khrushchev versus Kennedy | 456 | |
| The Causes of the Crisis | 546 | |
| Conclusions | 566 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 575 | |
| Index | 591 |
Subjects
History
Military History General & Miscellaneous Military History
Nonfiction History Military History
Military History General & Miscellaneous Military HistoryNonfiction
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