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• - Robert Wright summarizes his book "Nonzero: The Logic Of Human Destiny", which uses game theory to develop a philosophy of history.
  
• - Works in English by and about José Ortega y Gasset.
  
• - Links to documents containing Professor Little's application of the philosophy of science's approach to the philosophy of history.
  
• - Compilation of coincidental dates, numbers and names that link historical events.
  
• - Summarizes Hayden White's book "Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe", which categories 19th Century historians and philosophers of history.
  
• - Summarizes the works of St. Augustine, Kant, Herder, Hegel, Marx, Spengler and Toynbee.
  
• - Nathan Davis's "The next stage: society after capitalism", which modifies Historical Materialism to predict a future history.
  
• - Bibliography of many of the major philosophy of history works. Each book mentioned has an explanatory comment.
  
• - Andrew Fiala's article in "Essays in Philosophy" about liberal responses to terrorism in terms of philosophy of history.
  
• - Account of the view of history contained in the sayings of various African peoples.
  
• - Essays about the effects of hierarchical structures on governments, organized religions and corporations.
  
• - Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.
  
• - Marc Rubinn's "New Theory of the Evolution of History", which uses a cyclic model of civilizations' evolution.
  
• - Addresses the male-centric distortions in the main philosophies of history.
  
• - Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.
  
• - Hegel's philosophy of history from a historian's perspective.
  
• - Essays on philosophy of history from the Proceedings of the Friesian School. (This site includes summaries of Asian and ancient European philosophies of history).
  
• - George Burton Adams' presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1908.
  
• - Universal principles of governance in history, based on the concept of individual and group identity, by H. B. Paksoy.
  
• - Imam Baqir al-Sadr's philosophy of history, including comparisons with Western philosophies 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.
  
• - Articles, quotes, and links arguing that the primary task of history is not to judge the past but to judge the present.
  
• - Explains the Trinitarian philosophy of history, which is based on the proposition that each individual is a balancing trinity of spirit-mind-body.
  
• - Philosophy of history by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar - founder of the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) also known as Progressive Socialism.
  
• - A Russian site (in English) offering a listing of philosophy of history resources worldwide.
  
• - Joseph Fell's summary of John William Miller's philosophy.
  
• - E-text of lectures by George L. Anderson.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.
  
• - Ludwig von Mises's book "Theory and History: An interpretation of social and economic evolution", which criticizes historicism, scientism and dialectical materialism.
  
• - 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.