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The Evolution of Brooks Adams
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 1983
- pp. 95-116
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0717
- Article
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In 1895, Brooks Adams forecast the imminent collapse of western civilization. By 1903 he was celebrating the incipient geopolitical primacy of the United States in world affairs. More than a fickle reflection of contemporary trends, Adams's intellectual journey was undergirded by a ceaseless search for theoretical order which was his increasingly conscious contribution to, and recapitulation of, family history.