Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Carroll Quigley

[1966]

• Contents
• Introduction by Michael Chadwick
• Preface

PART ONE: Introduction -- Western Civilization In Its World Setting

• Chapter 1:
  Cultural Evolution in Civilizations
• Chapter 2:
  Cultural Diffusion in Western Civiliation 2
• Chapter 3:
  Europe's Shift to the Twentieth Century

PART TWO: Western Civilization to 1914

• Chapter 4:
  The Pattern of Change
• Chapter 5:
  European Economic Developments
• Chapter 6:
  The United States to 1917

PART THREE: The Russian Empire to 1917

• Chapter 7:
  Creation of the Russian Civilization

PART FOUR: The Buffer Fringe

• Chapter 8:
  The Near East to 1914
• Chapter 9:
  The British Imperial Crisis: Africa, Ireland, and India to 1926
• Chapter 10:
  The Far East to World War I

PART FIVE: The First World War: 1914-1918

• Chapter 11:
  The Growth of International Tensions, 1871-1914
• Chapter 12:
  Military History, 1914-1918
• Chapter 13:
  Diplomatic History, 1914-1918
• Chapter 14:
  The Home Front, 1914-1918

PART SIX: The Versailles System and the Return to Normalcy, 1919-1929

• Chapter 15:
  the Peace Settlements, 1919-1923
• Chapter 16:
  Security, 1919-1935
• Chapter 17:
  Disarmament, 1919-1935
• Chapter 18:
  Reparations, 1919-1932

PART SEVEN: Finance, Commercial and Business Activity, 1897-1947

Chapter 19:
Reflation and Inflation, 1897-1925

Chapter 20:
The Period of Stabilization, 1922-1930

Chapter 21:
The Period of Deflation, 1927-1936

Chapter 22:
Reflation and Inflation, 1933-1947

PART EIGHT: International Socialism and the Soviet Challenge

• Chapter 23:
  The International Socialist Movement
• Chapter 24:
  The Bolshevik Revolution to 1924
• Chapter 25:
  Stalinism, 1924-1939

PART NINE: Germany from Kaiser to Hitler, 1913-1945

• Chapter 26:
  Introduction
• Chapter 27:
  The Weimar Republica, 1918-1933
• Chapter 28:
  The Nazi Regime

PART TEN: Britain -- The Background to Appeasement, 1900-1939

• Chapter 29:
  The Social and Constitutional Background
• Chapter 30:
  Political History to 1939

PART ELEVEN: Changing Economic Patterns

• Chapter 31:
  Introduction
• Chapter 32:
  Great Britain
• Chapter 33:
  Germany
• Chapter 34:
  France
• Chapter 35:
  The United States of America
• Chapter 36:
  The Economic Factors
• Chapter 37:
  The Results of Economic Depression
• Chapter 38:
  The Pluralist Econoomy and World Blocs

NOTE: THE REMAINING CHAPTERS OF THIS BOOK WILL BE ADDED AS TIME PERMITS.