Carroll Quigley

Carroll Quigley (November 9, 1910 - January 3, 1977) was a noted historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations.

Quigley was born in Boston, and attended Harvard University, where he studied history and earned a B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. He taught at Princeton University and Harvard, and then joined the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1941.

U.S. President Bill Clinton, named Quigley as an important influence during his acceptance speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention, saying,

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 House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, which went on to establish NASAFact|date=September 2008.

An avid reader of many topics, he claimed to have read everything worth reading Fact|date=September 2008. Quigley served as a book reviewer for the "Washington Star" and was a contributor and editorial board member of "Current History."

Political positions

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. Quigley said of himself that he was a conservative defending the liberal tradition of the West.He was an early and fierce critic of the Vietnam War, and he was against the activities of the military-industrial complex which he saw as the future downfall of the country.

Conspiracy theories

Quigley became well known among those who believe that there is an international conspiracy to bring about a one-world government, especially through his book "Tragedy and Hope."

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 in order that the latter was eventually destroyed in a war between the two. He claimed also that the crisis had been staged by Neville Chamberlain.

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)

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

References

External links

* [http://www.tboyle.net/Catholicism/Carroll_Quigley.html "Washington Star" — Obituary for Professor Carroll Quigley]
* [http://www.scientiapress.com/findings/quigley.htm Carroll Quigley: Theorist of Civilizations]
* "Paranoia" interview with Robert Eringer [http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/spookaroonie.html]

Books
* [http://www.archive.org/details/CarrollQuigley-TheEvolutionOfCivilizations-AnIntroductionTo The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis]
* [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)
* [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
* [http://www.wealthbuilder.ie/essay15.htm The State of Individuals]
* [http://www.ndu.edu/library/ic3/L58-054.pdf Comparative National Cultures]