Doyne Dawson

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James Doyne Dawson (born 27 November 1941 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri)[citation needed] is an American historian and former US Army officer. As of 2002[1] and 2010,[2] he was Professor of International Affairs at Sejong University, Seoul, Korea,[3] where he taught in the Asian Studies Program.[4]

Dawson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1963[5] and received a PhD in ancient history from Princeton University in 1974.[6] He then trained at West Point[3] to become a US Army officer.[7]

He has written about group selection[8] and warfare,[9] and also about theological history.[10][11]

He taught at Reed College, where he was an assistant professor;[12] Boston University;[7] Massachusetts Institute of Technology;[7] High Point University;[13][14] and Chosun University[15][16] from 1998 to 2001.

Books[edit]

  • Dawson, Doyne (1992). Cities of the Gods: Communist Utopias in Greek Thought. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195069838.
  • Dawson, Doyne (1996). The Origins of Western Warfare. Westview Press. ISBN 081332940X.
  • Dawson, Doyne (2001). The first armies. Cassell. ISBN 0304352888.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pomper, Philip; Shaw, David Gary (2002). The Return of Science: Evolution, History, and Theory. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-2161-2. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  2. ^ https://kapa21.or.kr/conf/sche/57/download. Retrieved 3 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ a b Newark, Timothy (2009). The Worldwide History of Warfare: The Ultimate Visual Guide, from the Ancient World to the American Civil War. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-28799-6. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society. June 2003, Volume IV, Number 5". www.bu.edu. Boston University Historical Society. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  5. ^ "July Commencement, 1963" (PDF). University of Minnesota. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Doyne Dawson". 27 June 2017.
  7. ^ a b c Betlyon, John W. (October 1997). "The Origins of Western Warfare: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World". History: Reviews of New Books. 26 (1): 38. doi:10.1080/03612759.1997.10525323.
  8. ^ Dawson, Doyne (December 1999). "Evolutionary Theory and Group Selection: The Question of Warfare". History and Theory. 38 (4): 79–100. doi:10.1111/0018-2656.00105. PMID 21268933.
  9. ^ Dawson, Doyne (February 1996). "The Origins of War: Biological and Anthropological Theories". History and Theory. 35 (1): 1–28. doi:10.2307/2505515. JSTOR 2505515.
  10. ^ Dawson, James Doyne (July 1983). "Richard FitzRalph and the Fourteenth-Century Poverty Controversies". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 34 (3): 315–344. doi:10.1017/S002204690003788X. S2CID 162438853.
  11. ^ Dawson, James Doyne (January 1978). "William of Saint-Amour and the Apostolic Tradition". Mediaeval Studies. 40: 223–238. doi:10.1484/j.ms.2.306227.
  12. ^ AHA Newsletter. American Historical Association. 1968. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  13. ^ Dawson, Doyne (1992). Cities of the Gods: Communist Utopias in Greek Thought. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506983-9. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  14. ^ Miller, Edward Jeremy (1993). "Review of Conscience in Newman's Thought". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 61 (4): 827–829. doi:10.1093/jaarel/LXI.4.827. ISSN 0002-7189. JSTOR 1465070.
  15. ^ The Journal of Military History. Virginia Military Institute and the George C. Marshall Foundation. 1999. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  16. ^ Dawson, Doyne (2001). The first armies. Cassell. ISBN 0-304-35288-8.