The very best work of its kind I have read in a very long time. And when it was finally published in early 1966, readers discovered that Quigley had written the history of the twentieth century.
Review Quotes The only book that improves on and develops Toynbees work. The book was the magnum opus Quigley expected would establish him as a major historian and a formidable thinker outside the classroom and beyond the Beltway. This book, which is a compilation of some of Quigleys writings and most. A civilizations 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. Professor Quigley, though a top American historian, has escaped our attention. Quigley defines a civilization as a producing society with an instrument of expansion. He then tests those hypotheses by a detailed analysis of five major civilizations: the Mesopotamian, the Canaanite, the Minoan, the classical, and the Western. He poses a division of culture into six levels from the abstract to the more concrete.
Quigley examines the application of scientific method to the social sciences, then establishes his historical hypotheses. Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on students. Book Synopsis Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.
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