Tragedy and Hope, by Carroll Quigley: 3. The Buffer Fringe 3- India to 1926

Tragedy and Hope shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and worldwide economic depression. As an interpretive historian, he tries to show each event in the full complexity of it's historical context. The result is a unique work, notable in several ways. It gives a picture of the world in terms of the influence of different cultures and outlooks upon each other; it shows, more completely than in any similar work, the influence of science and technology on human life; and it explains, with unprecedented clarity, how intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to 1914 influenced the development of todays world.
Carroll Quigley, professor of history and the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University, formerly taught at Princeton and Harvard. He has done research in the archives of France, Italy, and England, and is the author of the widely praised Evolution of Civilisations. A member of the editorial board of the monthly 'Current History', he is a frequent lecturer and consultant for public and semi-public agencies. He is a member of the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological and the American Economic Association, as well as various historical associations. He has been lecturer on Russian History at Industrial College of the Armed Forces since 1951 and on Africa since 1961, and has lectured at many other places, including the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory, the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department, and the Naval College at Norfolk, Virginia. In 1958 he as a consultant to the Congressional Select Committee which set up the present national space agency. He was collaborator in history to the Smithsonian Institution after 1957, in connection with the establishment of its new Museum of History and Technology. In the summer of 1964 he went to the Navy Post-Graduate School, Monterey, California, as consultant to Project Seabed, which tries to visualise what American weapons systems would be like in twelve years.
"Quigley's... legacy lives on not only in... 'President Clinton', but among hundreds of other former students and admirers." - NEW YORK TIMES