Brooks Adams

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Brooks Adams was an American historian and political thinker known for his analyses of economic forces in history and his critiques of capitalism and imperial expansion.

Aliases (1)
  • Peter Chardon Brooks Adams ×1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historian
human
political thinker
writer
buriedIn Mount Wollaston Cemetery
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1848-06-24
dateOfDeath 1927-02-13
describedAs critic of capitalism
critic of imperial expansion
educatedAt Harvard College
Harvard Law School
ethnicGroup White American
familyName Adams
father Charles Francis Adams Sr.
fieldOfWork critique of capitalism
history of economic forces
imperialism studies
fullName Peter Chardon Brooks Adams
genre economic history
political theory
givenName Peter
languageOfWorkOrName English
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf Adams family
middleName Chardon Brooks
mother Abigail Brooks Adams
movement Progressive Era thought
notableIdea cyclical theory of civilization and decay
economic forces as drivers of history
notableWork America’s Economic Supremacy
The Law of Civilization and Decay
The New Empire
The Theory of Social Revolutions
occupation historian
lawyer
political writer
placeOfBirth Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath Boston, Massachusetts, United States
relative Charles Francis Adams Sr.
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
residence Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
sexOrGender male
sibling Charles Francis Adams Jr.
Henry Brooks Adams

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Brooks Adams ("Peter Chardon Brooks Adams")
fullName
Adams
hasNotableBearer
Hollis Hall
hasNotableResident

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