Adams, Brooks

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Adams, Brooks (1848–1927) US historian. Brother of Henry Brooks Adams, his influential book Law of Civilization and Decay (1895) held that civilizations rise and fall with the growth and decline of commerce. In America's Economic Supremacy (1900), Adams predicted the decline of Western Europe and proposed that, within 50 years, only the USA and Russia would be great powers.

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