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100 1 _aAdams, Brooks,
_d1848-1927
245 1 4 _aThe Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_of_Civilization_and_Decay
500 _aRelease date is 2014-02-14
508 _aProduced by Sean (scribe_for_hire@yahoo.com), based on page images generously made available by the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/lawofcivilizatio00adam).
520 _a"The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History" by Brooks Adams is a work of history privately published in 1895. Adams argues that civilizations follow a predictable cycle of rise and fall, driven by economic and social forces. As societies centralize and accelerate through industrialization, imaginative energy transforms into capital accumulation, causing profound shifts in human temperament and power. Through examples spanning from Rome to modern empires, Adams traces how commercial centers migrate and civilizations decay, suggesting that humanity's fate follows iron laws as inevitable as natural selection itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aHistory -- Philosophy
653 _aCivilization -- History
653 _aDegeneration
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44908
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