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Professor Carroll Quigley presents crucial "keys" without which
20th century political, economic, and military events can never be
fully understood. The reader will see that this applies to events
past-present-and future. "The Rhodes Scholarships, established by
the terms of Cecil Rhode's seventh will, are known to everyone.
What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills
left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote
itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And
what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret
society ... continues to exist to this day. ... This group is, as I
shall show, one of the most important historical facts of the
twentieth century." -Quigley
TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of
transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth
century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With
clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley
examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and a
worldwide economic depression. As an interpretative historian, he
tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical
context. The result is a unique work, notable in several ways. It
gives a picture of the world in terms of the influence of different
cultures and outlooks upon each other; it shows, more completely
than in any similar work, the influence of science and technology
on human life; and it explains, with unprecedented clarity, how the
intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to
1914 influenced the development of today's world.
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.
TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of
transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth
century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With
clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley
examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and a
worldwide economic depression. As an interpretative historian, he
tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical
context. The result is a unique work, notable in several ways. It
gives a picture of the world in terms of the influence of different
cultures and outlooks upon each other; it shows, more completely
than in any similar work, the influence of science and technology
on human life; and it explains, with unprecedented clarity, how the
intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to
1914 influenced the development of today's world.
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