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The Evolution of Civilizations - Couverture souple

Quigley, Carroll

 
9780913966570: The Evolution of Civilizations
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0913966576 ISBN 13 : 9780913966570
Editeur : Liberty Fund Inc, 1979

Synopsis

Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on students.

Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley examines the application of scientific method to the social sciences, then establishes his historical hypotheses. He poses a division of culture into six levels from the abstract to the more concrete. He then tests those hypotheses 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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À propos de l'auteur

Carroll Quigley

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Éditeur
Liberty Fund Inc
Date d'édition
1979
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0913966576
ISBN 13 
9780913966570
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
444
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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