现代美国  (1913 AD～March 23, 2004 AD)

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　　Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913 - March 23, 2004) was a Greek-Canadian historian. His most influential books are considered to be A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century and The Balkans since 1453. He was one of the very first historians to challenge Orientalist views of the Ottoman Empire.
　　Biography
　　
　　Stavrianos was born in Vancouver, 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 Queens 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
　　
　　A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century (7th edition ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 1998-12-26 . ISBN 978-0139238970.
　　The Balkans since 1453. with Traian Stoianovich. New York: NYU Press. 2000-05-01. ISBN 978-0814797662.