L. S. Stavrianos Explained

L. S. Stavrianos
Birth Date:	1913
Birth Place:	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Death Place:	La Jolla, California, US
Citizenship:	American
Fields:	History
Workplaces:	Queens, Smith, Northwestern, UCSD
Alma Mater:	University of British Columbia Clark University

Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913 – March 23, 2004) was a Greek-Canadian historian.^[1] His most influential books are considered to be A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century and The Balkans since 1453.^[2] He was one of the first historians to challenge Orientalist views of the Ottoman Empire.

Biography

Stavrianos was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1913. He received a B.A. in history from the University of British Columbia, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Stavrianos joined the faculty of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He then became a professor at Northwestern University in 1946. After retiring from Northwestern in 1973, Stavrianos joined the University of California, San Diego Department of History until 1992.

Bibliography

• Book: A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century . 7th . 1998 . 1970 . . Upper Saddle River, New Jersey . 978-0-13-923897-0 .
• Book: . The Balkans since 1453 . 2000 . . New York . 978-0-8147-9766-2 . registration .

Chronological list

• The Movement for Balkan Unity to 1912 (1937 Clark University dissertation)
• Balkan Federation: A History of the Movement toward Balkan Unity in Modern Times (1942, 1944)
• First Balkan Alliance System, 1860-1876 (1942)
• Greece: The War and Aftermath ... (1945)
• Greece: American Dilemma and Opportunity (1952)
• The Ottoman Empire: Was It the Sick Man of Europe? (1957, 3rd ed. 1966)
• Antecedents to the Balkan Revolutions of the Nineteenth Century (1957)
• The Balkans Since 1453 (1958, 2nd ed. 2000, 4th ed. 2008)
• A Global History of Man (1962) (with many co-authors)
• Readings in World History (1962, 3rd ed. 1970)
• The Balkans, 1815-1914 (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963).
• The Soviet Union: A Culture Area in Perspective (1964)
• Sub-Saharan Africa: A Culture in Perspective (1964) (with Loretta Kreider Andrews)
• Latin America: A Culture Area in Perspective (1965) (with George I. Blankenstein)
• India: A Culture Area in Perspective (1966) (with Lacey Baldwin Smith)
• China: A Culture Area in Perspective (1966) (with Roger F. Hackett)
• The Middle East: A Culture Area in Perspective (1966)
• The World Since 1500: A Global History (1966)
• The Epic of Modern Man: A Collection of Readings (Pearson, 1966; 2nd ed. 1971).
• The Epic of Man to 1500: A Collection of Readings (1970)
• The World to 1500: A Global History (Pearson, 1970; 3rd ed. 1983; 7th ed. 1999).
• Man's Past and Present: A Global History (Prentice Hall, 1971).
• The World of Mankind: Man the Toolmaker (1973)
• The Promise of the Coming Dark Age (1976)
• Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age (Morrow, 1981)
• Lifelines from Our Past: A New World History (Routledge, 1989, rev. ed. 1997).

External links

• Kevin Reilly remembers L.S. Stavrianos

Notes and References

1. Web site: Quill . Patricia . In Memoriam: Professor Leften Stavros Stavrianos . ucsdnews.ucsd.edu . University of California, San Diego . https://web.archive.org/web/20050503015534/http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/arts/Stavrianos.asp . 3 May 2005 . 31 March 2004.
2. News: Williams . Jack . Leften Stavros Stavrianos, 91; UCSD adjunct history professor . The San Diego Tribune . 4 April 2004 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070311082731/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040404/news_1m4stavriano.html . 11 March 2007.