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.
[1][2] He was one of the first historians to challenge Orientalist views of the Ottoman Empire.
[1] Stavrianos joined the faculty of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
After retiring from Northwestern in 1973, Stavrianos joined the University of California, San Diego Department of History until 1992.