L. S. Stavrianos
{{Short description|Greek-Canadian historian}}
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|workplaces = Queens, Smith, Northwestern, UCSD
|alma_mater = University of British Columbia
Clark University
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Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913 – March 23, 2004) was a Greek-Canadian historian.{{cite web |last1=Quill |first1=Patricia |title=In Memoriam: Professor Leften Stavros Stavrianos |url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/arts/Stavrianos.asp |website=ucsdnews.ucsd.edu |publisher=University of California, San Diego |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050503015534/http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/arts/Stavrianos.asp |archive-date=3 May 2005 |date=31 March 2004}} His most influential books are considered to be A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century and The Balkans since 1453.{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Jack |title=Leften Stavros Stavrianos, 91; UCSD adjunct history professor |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040404/news_1m4stavriano.html |work=The San Diego Tribune |date=4 April 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311082731/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040404/news_1m4stavriano.html |archive-date=11 March 2007}} 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
- {{cite book |title=A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century |edition=7th |year=1998 |orig-year=1970 |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Upper Saddle River, New Jersey |isbn=978-0-13-923897-0 }}
- {{cite book |others=With an introduction by Traian Stoianovich |title=The Balkans since 1453 |year=2000 |publisher=NYU Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8147-9766-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/balkanssince145300lsst}}
;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). {{ISBN|978-0-0308-2841-6}}
- 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). {{ISBN|978-0-1328-3333-2}}
- 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). {{ISBN|978-0-1392-3905-2}}
- Man's Past and Present: A Global History (Prentice Hall, 1971). {{ISBN|978-0-1355-2083-3}}
- 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) {{ISBN|978-0-6880-0656-3}}
- Lifelines from Our Past: A New World History (Routledge, 1989, rev. ed. 1997). {{ISBN|978-0-7656-0180-3}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060423055816/http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/1.2/reilly.html Kevin Reilly remembers L.S. Stavrianos]
- {{Internet Archive author |sname= Stavrianos, Leften}}
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Category:Historians of the Balkans
Category:Canadian male non-fiction writers
Category:Canadian people of Greek descent
Category:Northwestern University faculty
Category:Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
Category:Smith College faculty
Category:University of California, San Diego faculty
Category:Writers from Vancouver
Category:Clark University alumni
Category:University of British Columbia alumni
Category:20th-century Canadian historians