Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780913966570 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 444 str.

Carroll Quigley

Opis

A comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. 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.