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Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_hist_index.htmAfrican Philosophy of History in the Oral Tradition
Account of the view of history contained in the sayings of various African peoples.
http://nigerdeltacongress.com/articles/an_african_philosophy_of_history.htm
Annotated Bibliography for the Philosophy of History
Bibliography of many of the major philosophy of history works. Each book mentioned has an explanatory comment.
http://faculty.uccb.ns.ca/areynold/paul/Default.htm
Christian Philosophy of History
Comparison between Jacques Maritain and Nicolas Berdyaev's Christian philosophy of history and their impact on the Christian views of history and of mankind's future.
http://seekingwisdom.com/goubman.htm
Feminist History of Philosophy
Addresses the male-centric distortions in the main philosophies of history.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-femhist/
Five Epochs of Civilization
Summary of William McGaughey's "Five Epochs of Civilization", which splits history into four epochs each centered on a key communication technology. The fifth epoch is his prediction of the future.
http://www.worldhistorysite.com/prediction.html
Forrester, Rochelle
Site attempts to explain the causes of historical social and cultural change, featuring articles about the discovery of agriculture, the invention of the steam engine, chemistry, and the nature of reality.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/rochelle.f/index.html
Friesian School's Philosophy of History
Essays on philosophy of history from the Proceedings of the Friesian School. (This site includes summaries of Asian and ancient European philosophies of history).
http://www.friesian.com/philhist.htm
Game Theory of Human History
Robert Wright summarizes his book "Nonzero: The Logic Of Human Destiny", which uses game theory to develop a philosophy of history.
http://www.nonzero.org/intro.htm
Hayden White's "Metahistory"
Summarizes Hayden White's book "Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe", which categories 19th Century historians and philosophers of history.
http://www.stanford.edu/~skij/white.html
Hegel's Philosophy of History
Hegel's philosophy of history from a historian's perspective.
http://dave.burrell.net/hegel.html
Historian Underground
Articles, quotes, and links arguing that the primary task of history is not to judge the past but to judge the present.
http://www.lemmingland.com/under.htm
Historical Coincidences
Compilation of coincidental dates, numbers and names that link historical events.
http://www.geocities.com/nephilimnot/Parallels.html
History and the Philosophy of History
George Burton Adams' presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1908.
http://www.theaha.org/info/AHA_History/gbadams.htm
Identities: How Governed, Who Pays?
Universal principles of governance in history, based on the concept of individual and group identity, by H. B. Paksoy.
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-7/index.html
Miller, John William
Joseph Fell's summary of John William Miller's philosophy.
http://www.williams.edu/resources/miller/fell.html
Ortega y Gasset, Jose
Works in English by and about José Ortega y Gasset.
http://www.geocities.com/longknowledge/ortegaygasset.html
Philosophers of History
Summarizes the works of St. Augustine, Kant, Herder, Hegel, Marx, Spengler and Toynbee.
http://www.history-ontheweb.co.uk/histtheory/histtheory_4.htm
Philosophy of History Archive
A Russian site (in English) offering a listing of philosophy of history resources worldwide.
http://www.nsu.ru/filf/pha/index.html
Progressive Socialism Philosophy of History
Philosophy of history by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar - founder of the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) also known as Progressive Socialism
http://www.prout.org/ChapterTwo.html
Terrorism and the Philosophy of History
Andrew Fiala's article in "Essays in Philosophy" about liberal responses to terrorism in terms of philosophy of history.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/fiala.html
The Evolution of History
Marc Rubinn's "New Theory of the Evolution of History", which uses a cyclic model of civilizations' evolution.
http://users.easystreet.com/mrubinn/EvolOfHist
The Free Dictionary Definition
Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/%20Philosophy%20of%20history
The Meaning of History: an Islamic Perspective
Imam Baqir al-Sadr's philosophy of history, including comparisons with Western philosophies of history.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8613/history.html
The Next Society
Nathan Davis's "The next stage: society after capitalism", which modifies Historical Materialism to predict a future history.
http://www.geocities.com/society_after_capitalism/index.html
Theory and History
Ludwig von Mises's book "Theory and History: An interpretation of social and economic evolution", which criticizes historicism, scientism and dialectical materialism.
http://www.mises.org/th.asp
Trinitarian Philosophy of History
Explains the Trinitarian philosophy of history, which is based on the proposition that each individual is a balancing trinity of spirit-mind-body.
http://hometown.aol.com/trinitine/esay3.htm
Wikipedia Definition
Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history
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