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Carroll Quigley (November 9, 1910 – January 3, 1977) was a historian and professor of history at Georgetown University from 1941 to 1976.

Quigley was born in Boston, where he attended school and later received both undergraduate degrees and a doctorate from nearby Harvard University.

At Georgetown University, Quigley joined the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he taught the course, Development of Civilization.

In addition to his academic work, Quigley was a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, which went on to establish NASA.

Notes

Books

The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis (1961) ISBN 0913966568
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966) ISBN 094500110X
The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden (1981) ISBN 0945001010
Weapons Systems and Political Stability: A History (1983) ISBN 081912947X

External links

Washington Star — Obituary for Professor Carroll Quigley
Carroll Quigley: Theorist of Civilizations
Paranoia interview with Robert Eringer [1]

Books

Lectures

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-'''Carroll Quigley''' ([[November 9]], [[1910]] - [[January 3]], [[1977]]) was a noted historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations.
+'''Carroll Quigley''' ([[November 9]], [[1910]] &ndash; [[January 3]], [[1977]]) was a historian and professor of [[history]] at [[Georgetown University]] from [[1941]] to [[1976]].
+Quigley was born in [[Boston]], where he attended school and later received both undergraduate degrees and a [[doctorate]] from nearby [[Harvard University]].
-Quigley was born in [[Boston]], where he attended school and planned to pursue a career in biochemistry.  But he soon shifted to history, to which he brought an analytical, scientific approach.  After receiving a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D in history from [[Harvard University]], he taught at Princeton and Harvard.  In 1941 Quigley joined the [[Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service]] at [[Georgetown University]], where he came to teach a highly regarded course, ''Development of Civilization''.
+At Georgetown University, Quigley joined the [[Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service]], where he taught the course, ''Development of Civilization''.
-Endowed with a Napoleonic constitution and willing to work 16 hours a day, Quigley was a rapid, acute reader who devoured the contents of countless thousands of books and came to possess an exceptional range of knowledge in many fields.  Not one to hide his light under a bushel basket, he claimed to have read everything worth reading.  Fields of special expertise included aspects of primitive and archaic culture (e.g., primitive poison fishhooks), the impact of weapons technology on social organization, and the Anglo-American elite.  He emphasized "inclusive diversity" as a value of Western Civilization long before diversity became commonplace, and he denounced Platonic doctrines as an especially pernicious deviation from this ideal, preferring [[Thomas Aquinas's]] pluralism.
+In addition to his [[academic]] work, Quigley was a [[consultant]] to the [[U.S. Department of Defense]], the [[U.S. Navy]], the [[Smithsonian Institution]], and the [[United States House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration|Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration]], which went on to establish [[NASA]].
-As a spell-binding lecturer, Quigley made a strong impression on many of his students, including future U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]], who named Quigley as an important influence during his acceptance speech to the [[1992 Democratic National Convention]], saying,
+==Notes==
-:''As a teenager, I heard John Kennedy’s summons to citizenship. And then, as a student at Georgetown, I heard that call clarified by a professor named Carroll Quigley, who said to us that America was the greatest Nation in history because our people had always believed in two things&ndash;that tomorrow can be better than today and that every one of us has a personal moral responsibility to make it so.''
+{{reflist|2}}
+==Books==
-In addition to his [[academic]] work, Quigley served as a [[consultant]] to the [[U.S. Department of Defense]], the [[U.S. Navy]], the [[Smithsonian Institute]], and the [[United States House of Representatives|House]] Select [[Congressional committee|Committee]] on Astronautics and [[Space Exploration]], which went on to establish [[NASA]]. Although Quigley remained a sought-after lecturer, he received fewer offers to consult over time perhaps because he was unwilling to say what was politically acceptable.
+* ''The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis   '' (1961)  ISBN 0913966568
-Quigley served as a book reviewer for the "Washington Star" and was a contributor and editorial board member of "Current History."
+* ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'' (1966)  ISBN 094500110X
+* ''The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden'' (1981)  ISBN 0945001010
+* ''Weapons Systems and Political Stability: A History'' (1983) ISBN 081912947X
+== External links ==
-Quigley authored several influential books:
+* [http://www.tboyle.net/Catholicism/Carroll_Quigley.html ''Washington Star'' &mdash; Obituary for Professor Carroll Quigley]
+* [http://www.scientiapress.com/findings/quigley.htm Carroll Quigley:  Theorist of Civilizations]
+* ''[[Paranoia (magazine)|Paranoia]]'' interview with [[Robert Eringer]] [http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/spookaroonie.html]
+'''Books'''
-* ''Tragedy and Hope:  A History of the World in Our Time'' (1966)  ISBN 0-945001-10-X
+*[http://www.archive.org/details/CarrollQuigley-TheEvolutionOfCivilizations-AnIntroductionTo The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis]
-* ''Evolution of Civilizations'' (1979)  ISBN 0-913966-56-8
+* [http://www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org/lp/Hancock/CD-ROMS/GlobalFederation%5CWorld%20Trade%20Federation%20-%2098%20-%20Tragedy%20and%20Hope.html  Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time] (incomplete version)
-* ''The Anglo-American Establishment'' (1982)  ISBN 0-945001-01-0
+*[http://www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org/lp/Hancock/CD-ROMS/GlobalFederation%5CWorld%20Trade%20Federation%20-%20136%20-%20The%20Anglo-American%20Establishment.html The Anglo-American Establishment]
+'''Lectures'''
-Although he received only limited public and professional recognition for his contributions, Quigley was in fact a leading theorist of the rise and fall of civilizations, developing a 7-stage model (Mixture, Gestation, Expansion, Age of Conflict, Universal Empire, Decay, and Invasion) that was integrated into a framework of analysis that included dimensions of power (military and political), wealth (economic and social), and outlook (intellectual and religious).
+*[http://www.wealthbuilder.ie/essay15.htm The State of Individuals]
+*[http://www.ndu.edu/library/ic3/L58-054.pdf Comparative National Cultures]
-The penetration of Quigley's analytical mind, his flow of novel concepts, his penchant for provocative formulations, his ceaseless crossing of disciplinary boundaries, and his willingness to challenge specialists and authorities led to a fair amount of controversy, though in fact his political and social views were moderate.  He was an early and fierce critic of the Vietnam War, and he was against the activities of the [[military-industrial complex]] that, in his mind, threaten to transform the United States into an empire and thereby doom it to eventual corruption, fossilization, and decline.  He was ever on the alert for signs of the processes by which a dynamic "instrument" of society that satisfied the needs of individuals could turn into a stagnant, self-aggrandizing "institution".  A central concern of Quigley was whether Western Civilization could renew its best traditions--including investing in innovation and emphasizing spiritual values and interpersonal relations rather than material things--after the Age of Conflict between 1895 and 1945 or whether it would slide into an era of Universal Empire.  Initially full of hope on this subject, he grew more pessimistic about it in his later years.  Quigley said of himself that he was a conservative defending the liberal tradition of the West.
+*[http://www.ndu.edu/library/ic2/L53-120.pdf Development Of The Soviet Economy]
+*[http://www.ndu.edu/library/ic3/L60-143.pdf Antecedents Of The Soviet Regime In Russia]
-Quigley became well known among those who believe that there is an international [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy]] to bring about a [[New World Order (conspiracy)|one-world government]].  In his book ''Tragedy and Hope'', he based his analysis on his research in the papers of an Anglo-American elite organization that, he held, secretly controlled the U.S. and UK governments through a series of [[Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups|Round Table Groups]]. The Round Table group in the US was the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].  He argued that both the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] parties were controlled by an "international [[Anglophile]] network" that shaped elections.
+*[http://www.ndu.edu/library/ic2/L51-134.pdf History Of The Pre-Revolutionary Origins Of The USSR 1]
+*[http://www.ndu.edu/library/ic3/L58-126.pdf  History Of The Pre-Revolutionary Origins Of The USSR 2]
-In ''The Anglo-American Establishment'', published in 1982, 5 years after his death because of its controversial material (several publishers would not publish it in when it was written in 1949, but his manuscript was after his death found on the Island of Rhodes), Carroll Quigley claimed that the [[Munich Pact]] had secretly been prepared as early as 1937 by [[Great Britain]] politicians to give [[Germany]] and the [[Soviet Union]] a common border to eventially destroy the latter in a war between the two.  He claimed also that the crisis had been staged by [[Neville Chamberlain]].
+*[http://www.ndu.edu/library/ic2/L52-116.pdf  History Of The Pre-Revolutionary Origins Of The USSR 3]
-Conspiracy theorists assailed Quigley for his approval of the goals (not the tactics) of the Anglo-American elite while selectively using his information and analysis as evidence for their views. Quigley himself thought that the influence of the Anglo-American elite had slowly waned after World War II and that, in American society after 1965, the problem was that no elite was in charge and acting responsibly.
-No matter how reasonable Quigley's thinking on this and other subjects was, the association of his findings with conspiracy theorists, in combination with the sheer originality of his ideas, caused rumors to circulate about his mental status.  In addition, toward the end of his Georgetown career, Quigley ran into criticism from students unhappy about his grading, was roughed up in class by student antiwar protesters, and had his "Development of Civilization" course taken away from him in an academic power game.  Teaching appears to have lost some of its charm for him, and he eventually retired to work on his book manuscripts.
-Nowadays, Quigley is often spoken of in reference to his writings about the Anglo-American Establishment or as an influence on Clinton.  But his theory of civilization, his methods of thinking, and his philosophy of social good have much more general and enduring importance.  Among other things, they provide a valuable framework for understanding the interaction of civilizations in a global era.  In addition, Quigley's teachings and his dynamic persona had a profound impact on thousands of students and intellectuals, with outcomes that we are not yet in a position fully to assess.
-==Quotes==
-:''There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.'' (p. 950}
-:'' The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.'' {p. 1247-1248}
-Both from ''Tragedy and Hope'' (1966)
-== External links ==
-* [http://www.tboyle.net/Catholicism/Carroll_Quigley.html ''Washington Star'' &mdash; Obituary for Professor Carroll Quigley]
-* [http://www.4president.org/speeches/billclinton1992acceptance.htm Acceptance Speech to the Democratic National Convention by Governor Bill Clinton]
-* [http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/03-08-2004/republocrats.htm The 2004 Election]
-*[http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1993/vo09no02/vo09no02_rhodie.htm Quigley's influence on Bill Clinton]
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