The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis
Author(s): QUIGLEY, CARROLL
"The Evolution of Civilizations" is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilisations. Quigley defines a civilisation as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion". A civilisation'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.
Product Information
Carroll Quigley
General Fields
- :
- : Liberty Fund Inc
- : Liberty Fund Inc
- : 0.73
- : 01 January 1979
- : 155mm X 230mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography, index
- : 444
- : 909
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : Paperback
- : QUIGLEY, CARROLL