Brooks Adams: 18 books

Before Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and other historians of cultural rise and fall, there was Brooks Adams. And while today there are ever more historians adding their theories as to why civilizations collapse through such factors as military invasion, over-taxation, or ecological shifts, most...

2 Works of Brooks Adams American historian and a critic of capitalism (1848-1927) This ebook presents a collection of 2 Works of Brooks Adams. A dynamic table of contents allows to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - 1896 - The Law of Civilization and Decay - 1913 - The Theory of Social Revolutions

These days, as many world markets teeter on the brink of disaster, the concept of capitalism has come under increasing fire. In this volume, Harvard-trained historian Brooks Adams (great-grandson of second U.S. president John Adams and grandson of sixth U.S. president John Quincy Adams) presents a detailed critique of capitalism, with a particular focus on the American economic system.

American historian Brooks Adams critised capitalism and sort to explain the development of commercialism, he theorised a predictable rise and fall in commercial activities with the formation of commercial centres based on a need for such activities to be more easily practised. He also expounded upon...

The Theory Of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams Municipal law, to be satisfactory, should be a body of abstract principles capable of being applied impartially to all relevant facts, just as Marshall and Jay held it to be. Where exceptions begin, equality before the law ends, as I have tried...

The Emancipation of Massachusetts The Dream and the Reality This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I. THE COMMONWEALTH CHAPTER II. THE ANTINOMIANS CHAPTER III. THE CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM CHAPTER IV. THE ANABAPTISTS CHAPTER V. THE QUAKERS CHAPTER VI. THE...

In Adams’s first important historical work, published in 1887, the author argues that Puritan Massachusetts had once been a theocracy where there was no place for freedom of religion, speech, or opinion, and that succeeding generations had to struggle for these freedoms. The book also contains the...

The author examines America’s reluctant rise to power and the United Kingdom’s subsequent decline. Exhibiting a Darwinian perspective on the hierarchy of nations, Adams analyzes how power, wealth, and war are related. He argues that trade is an even more powerful force than war, demonstrating his...

In The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895), Adams presents his theory that historical events are determined by economic conditions.  While believing that economic concerns—trade and the accumulation of wealth, for example—provided a primary impetus for civilization, he also believed that, unchecked, they invariably led to collapse.

In this 1913 volume, Adams sets out the case for the necessity of the impartiality of law. Concerned about the dangers stemming from the great wealth and private power newly being created in America, he argues that the justice system can only be satisfactory when applied in an entirely egalitarian manner....

Civilization, I apprehend, is nearly synonymous with order. However much we may differ touching such matters as the distribution of property, the domestic relations, the law of inheritance and the like, most of us, I should suppose, would agree that without order civilization, as we understand it,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: I assume it to be generally admitted, that possibly man's first and probably his greatest advance toward order-and, therefore, toward civilization-was the creation of the family as the social nucleus. As...

In the summer of 1993, James Wood brought terror to the unassuming town of Pocatello, Idaho. Little did the friendly community realize it had opened its arms to serial killer. Wood, the stranger in town, was polite and soft-spoken. He looked quite ordinary—he was a master at appearing normal. In...