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Tables of Contents for Dynamics of World History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
Dermot Quinn
vii
Preface to the 1978 edition
John J. Mulloy
xxxi
Introduction to the 1958 edition
John J. Mulloy
xli
PART ONE: Toward a Sociology of History
SECTION I: The Sociological Foundations of History
The Sources of Culture Change
3
10
Sociology as a Science
13
22
Sociology and the Theory of Progress
35
12
Civilization and Morals
47
10
Progress and Decay in Ancient and Modern Civilization
57
14
Art and Society
71
8
Vitality or Standardization in Culture
79
6
Cultural Polarity and Religious Schism
85
10
Prevision in Religion
95
14
T.S. Eliot on the Meaning of Culture
109
10
SECTION II: The Movement of World History
Religion and the Life of Civilization
119
18
The Warrior Peoples and the Decline of the Archaic Civilization
137
20
The Origins of Classical Civilization
157
8
The Patriarchal Family in History
165
10
Stages in Mankind's Religious Experience
175
24
SECTION III: Urbanism and the Organic Nature of Culture
The Evolution of the Modern City
199
12
Catholicism and the Bourgeois Mind
211
14
The World Crisis and the English Tradition
225
12
Bolshevism and the Bourgeoisie
237
8
PART TWO: Conceptions of World History
SECTION I: Christianity and the Meaning of History
The Christian View of History
245
18
History and the Christian Revelation
263
12
Christianity and Contradiction in History
275
8
The Kingdom of God and History
283
20
SECTION II: The Vision of the Historian
The Problem of Metahistory
303
8
St. Augustine and the City of God
311
30
Edward Gibbon and the Fall of Rome
341
28
Karl Marx and the Dialectic of History
369
12
H. G. Wells and the Outline of History
381
8
Oswald Spengler and the Life of Civilizations
389
16
Arnold Toynbee and the Study of History
405
14
Europe in Eclipse
419
8
Afterword Continuity and Development in Christopher Dawson's Thought
John J. Mulloy
427
56
Sources
483
4
Notes
487
16
Index
503
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