Some of Quigley's conclusions: we live in an age of ""competing doubts"" ""political considerations.will continue to be dominated by the weapons situation."" ""war and depression are man-made, and needless."" With this last, we can only agree. The division of chapters, too, is fairly routine: a general survey of Western Civilization in its world setting various national positions before World War I the creation of the British Empire the Great War the world's commercial situations, 1897-1947 the history of Socialism and the USSR Germany from Kaiser to Hitler changing economic patterns the policy of appeasement prior to World War II, including a section on the Spanish Civil War events before and during World War II the wartime and postwar sweep of science two long chapters on nuclear rivalry, with a discussion of American domestic political manifestations and two concluding chapters: The New Era, 1957-1964 (nuclear stalemate, Latin America, the Far East, the eclipse of colonialism), and Tragedy and Hope: The Future in Perspective. Quigley's socio-political doctrines are largely those of today's middle-of-the-road: he looks back with horror upon the evils of the nineteenth century and predicts a future in which the practices of technology shall be hedged with concern for the common good. A great deal of its reference value will, of course, be determined by its index, and the elaborateness of its Table of Contents, not seen here. To blink, is to miss a whole handful of data as this book flies by it is rather too much of a dose of history to be imbibed in the span of a library loan.
Quigley makes extensive use of precis, but precis require tremendous compression and, more often than not, appalling oversimplifications. A comprehensive five-volume reference on the defining conflict of the second half of the 20th century, covering all aspects of the Cold War as it influenced events around the world.It is a staggering project to read this work: a minutely-detailed history of the modern world in two approximately standard-size volumes. location This is a high quality book that is in good condition and. Association of Educational Publishers, Distinguished Achievement Award for Social Studies Instruction (Reference Category), June 2008. Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley is available now for quick shipment to any U.S. Editor (with Spencer Tucker et al.), author of 66 short articles, editor/compiler of Vol.
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