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The Quigley Archive
A cross-linked archive of Carroll Quigley's research — Tragedy and Hope, The Evolution of Civilizations, The Anglo-American Establishment, and a dozen lectures and essays — structured around the figures, networks, institutions, theories, and civilizations he documented.
177 entities · 10 categories · 15 source works
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Figures
Individuals — historical actors, theorists, and architects of influence.
62 entitiesNetworks
Informal coordinated groups — Round Table, CFR, Bilderberg, and predecessors.
9 entitiesInstitutions
Formal organizations — central banks, ministries, intelligence services, foundations.
18 entitiesCivilizations
Quigley's units of historical analysis — Western, Classical, Hindu, Sinic, Islamic, etc.
9 entitiesTheories
Quigley's analytical frameworks — the 3-stage civ model, instrument of expansion, etc.
5 entitiesConcepts
Recurring named ideas — peripheral society, core civilization, the expansion–stagnation cycle.
6 entitiesEvents
Discrete historical events — treaties, crashes, founding moments, turning points.
15 entitiesPeriods
Historical eras — Age of Expansion, Late Modern Western, Bismarck Era, etc.
8 entitiesWorks
Quigley's books and papers themselves — each work as its own entity page.
13 entitiesRegions
Geographic entities — Anglo-Saxon world, Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, Mexico.
32 entitiesFeatured Entries
- Abdication of Edward VIII — December 1936 abdication of the British king over the Wallis Simpson marriage
- Adolf Hitler — Chancellor and Führer of Nazi Germany 1933–1945
- Africa — Continent subject to European partition and post-war decolonization
- Age of Conflict — Stage 4 of Quigley's seven-stage civilizational model — the era of slowing expansion, class struggle, imperialist wars, and growing irrationality that follows the institutionalization of the instrument of expansion
- Age of Expansion — Stage 3 of Quigley's seven-stage civilizational model — the long growth phase driven by the instrument of expansion, marked by rising production, population, geography, and knowledge
- Agricultural Revolution (Neolithic) — The transition from food-gathering to food-producing societies — Quigley's foundational civilizational shift
- Alexander the Great — King of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire (356–323 BCE)
- Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner — British colonial administrator who reorganized Rhodes's secret society into the Milner Group (1854-1925)
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