21 Facts About Carroll Quigley

Carroll Quigley was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations.

Carroll Quigley is remembered for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, and his seminal works, The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis, and Tragedy And Hope; A History Of The World In Our Time, in which he states that an Anglo-American banking elite have worked together for centuries to spread certain values globally.

Carroll Quigley taught at Princeton University, and then at Harvard, and then from 1941 to 1976 at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Carroll Quigley was a book reviewer for The Washington Star, and a contributor and editorial board member of Current History.

Carroll Quigley retired from Georgetown in June 1976 after being honored by the student body with its Faculty Award for the fourth consecutive year.

Carroll Quigley died the following year at Georgetown University Hospital following a heart attack.

Carroll Quigley's work emphasized "inclusive diversity" as a core value of Western civilization, contrasting it with the dualism of Plato.

Carroll Quigley concluded the book Tragedy and Hope with the hope that the West could "resume its development along its old patterns of Inclusive Diversity".

Carroll Quigley asserts that any intolerance or rigidity in the religious practices of the West are aberrations from its nature of inclusivity and diversity.

From a historical study of weapons and political dynamics, Carroll Quigley concludes that the characteristics of weapons are the main predictor of democracy.

Carroll Quigley's writing style is dense, influenced by a former history professor of his:.

Carroll Quigley's writing on this topic has made Quigley famous among many who investigate conspiracy theories.

Carroll Quigley assigns this group primary or exclusive credit for several historical events: the Jameson Raid, the Second Boer War, the founding of the Union of South Africa, the replacement of the British Empire with the Commonwealth of Nations, and a number of Britain's foreign policy decisions in the twentieth century.

In 1966, Carroll Quigley published a one-volume history of the twentieth century, titled Tragedy and Hope.

Carroll Quigley is cited by several other authors who assert the existence of powerful conspiracies.

Carroll Quigley was dismissive of the authors who used his writings to support theories of a world domination conspiracy.

William Engdahl, in an overview of financial imperialism entitled The Gods of Money, criticized Carroll Quigley for stating that the power of international bankers declined in the 1930s, and insofar as the influence of international bankers in America was concerned, suggested that Carroll Quigley was confusing "international finance" with Morgan interests.

Carroll Quigley suggested, like Sutton, that Quigley's papers had been vetted.

Carroll Quigley stated that the intentions and objectives of the group he profiled, associated with Wall Street and the City of London and Cecil Rhodes' super-imperialism, were "largely commendable".

Carroll Quigley argued that the Round Table groups were not World Government advocates but super-imperialists.

Carroll Quigley stated that they emphatically did not want the League of Nations to become a World Government.