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Weapons Systems and Political Stability - A History (Hardcover)
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Weapons Systems and Political Stability - A History (Hardcover)
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Carroll Quigley, American historian and professor at Georgetown
University, died January 5, 1977, leaving behind a manuscript on
weapons systems and political stability, upon which he had been
working on for the preceding twelve years. Very few would ever see
his final work, that is, until today. For the first time in over 30
years, this manuscript is now available to the public in its
entirety, unabridged and original format. Professor Quigley's
Weapons Systems and Political Stability carries further toward
completion the uniquely anthropological holistic analysis of
history, which is the theme of his earlier works; Tragedy and Hope
and The Evolution of Civilizations. Quigley's observations on the
uses of war are penetrating. Throughout history, society's
decisions regarding its weapons systems have been decisive in
shaping human social, economic, and political decisions. Of special
interest today is Quigley's division of western weapons systems
over the last thousand years into five successive stages, each
associated with different political system. In Quigley's social
analysis the dominance of democracy in the 20th century is
attributable to the acceptance in the 19th century of a weapons
system that favored democracy, the hand gun and rifle. In the
consequent tilt toward an atomistic society, loyalties to the once
strong social structures of family, church, and workplace break
down.
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