Weapons Systems and Political Stability Unknown - 1983

Univ Pr of Amer, 1983-05-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice cover. Previous owner name to front paste down. Clean pages throughout. Binding excellent.

Univ Pr of Amer. Used - Good. Good condition. (war and society, history, civilization, ancient, power) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

USA: Service. Good. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 081912947X . "Carroll Quigley, historian and teacher at Georgetown University, died January 5, 1977, leaving unfinished this manuscript upon which he had been working for the preceding twelve years. His colleagues and friends, upon reviewing the manuscript, decided to press forward with its publication. Although the manuscript is frustratingly incomplete in time sequence - it ends its narrative in the fifteenth century - it carries further toward completion the uniquely anthropological holistic analysis of history which is the theme of his earlier works... Quigley is incredibly successful in abstracting essence from reality - in analyzing mankind's experience in socializing. He describes weaponry as not an end in itself. It is part of a whole in which by far the greater part of persuasion and cooperation is accomplished by institutionalization of ideologies. This book is one of those human efforts which shapes the… Leer más