Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extra-ordinary in its scope and on its impact on its students. Like the course, the Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perspective look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley examines the application scientific method to the social sciences. He poses a division of culture into six levels, from the more abstract to the more concrete - intellectual, ...
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Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extra-ordinary in its scope and on its impact on its students. Like the course, the Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perspective look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley examines the application scientific method to the social sciences. He poses a division of culture into six levels, from the more abstract to the more concrete - intellectual, religious, social, political, economic and military. - and he identifies seven stages of historical change for all civilizations: mixture, gestation, expansion, conflict, universal empire, decay and invasion. He tests these hypothesis by a detailed analysis of five major civilizations: the Mesopotamian, the Canaanite, the Minoan, the classical, and the Western. Quigley defines a civilization as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion." A civilization's decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institution--that is, when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs.
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Supports Goodwill of Silicon Valley job training programs. The cover and pages are in Good condition! Any other included accessories are also in Good condition showing use. Use can included some highlighting and writing page and cover creases as well as other types visible wear.
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Good in Good dust jacket. "Professor Quigley has shaken the historical kaleidoscope into new patterns and provided us with fresh reasoning as to how and why whole civilizations rise and fall. His conclusions are so clearly formulated, so reasonable and inevitable, that we can only wonder that no one has ever discovered these truths before."-dust jacket. x, [4], 281 pages. Index. Book clean, tight and unmarked withe moderate wear. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade mylar. A quality copy. Quigley later wrote the classic "Tragedy and Hope" and served as mentor to Bill Clinton at Georgetown.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; The Evolution of Civilizations-An Introduction to Historical Analysis Tragedy and Hope.
