Carroll Quigley

Carroll Quigley (born November 9, 1910 in Boston , † January 3, 1977 ) was an American historian and civilization theorist.

Career

After attending school in Boston, he initially planned a career as a biochemist before turning to history. At Harvard University, he earned bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. and initially taught at Harvard and Princeton.

He taught from 1941 at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC His most famous student was the future American President Bill Clinton , who called him one of the most important professors of his student days. Quigley has served as a consultant to American institutions such as the Department of Defense, the US Navy, the Smithsonian Institute, and the forerunner of NASA.

Quigley also dealt with the connections between finance and politics. He also turned his attention to elites such as the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations . His main work is the book Tragedy and Hope , which summarizes world history from 1913 to 1964 on over 1300 pages. In the last twelve years of his life, he devoted himself to a work that investigates the influence of changes in weapon technology on world history ( Sociology of Weaponry ). It remained unfinished and was published in parts after his death. His main thesis is that amateur weapons promote the emergence of democratic systems and specialist weapons promote authoritarian forms of government.

Works

• The Public Administration of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1938), dissertation, edited, published around 1971, online scan (PDF; 22.5 MB).
• The Evolution of Civilizations (1961). ISBN 0-913966-56-8 , online scan .
• Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966), ISBN 0-945001-10-X , online scan .
  • Disaster and hope. A history of the world in our time. Translated, introduced and commented by Andreas Bracher. Perseus, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-907564-42-1 (selection).
  • Tragedy and hope. A history of the world in our time. Kopp , Rottenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86445-262-8 (full translation).
• The Anglo-American Establishment (1981), ISBN 0-945001-01-0 , online scan .
  • The Anglo-American Establishment , Kopp , Rottenburg 2016, ISBN 978-386445-299-4 (full translation).
• Weapons Systems and Political Stability (1983), ISBN 0-8191-2947-X , online scan (PDF; 38.0 MB) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bill Clinton's speech on July 16, 1992

Web links

• Page about Carroll Quigley
• Literature by and about Carroll Quigley in the catalog of the German National Library