Most Popular Books by Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Toynbee''s A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell''s abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. Originally published in 1947 and 1957, these two volumes are themselves a great historical achievement. Volume 1, which abridges the first six volumes of Toynbee''s study, includes the Introduction, The Geneses of Civilizations, and The Disintegrations of Civilizations. Volume 2, an abridgement of Volumes VII-X, includes sections on Universal States, Universal churches, Heroic Ages, Contacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time, Law and Freedom in History, The Prospects of the Western Civilization, and the Conclusion. Of Somervell''s work, Toynbee wrote, "The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer''s outlook and purpose."

Toynbee''s analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations has been acknowledged as an achievement without parallel in modern scholarship. This abridgement preserves its method, atmosphere, texture, and for the most part, the author''s very words.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

Published by the Allies'' most respected historians on the eve of World War I, this book served as a backgrounder on one of Europe''s key trouble spots. Still a superb overview of a region which remains unsettled to this day.This masterfully crafted eBook faithfully preserves the 1916 revised second edition. It is fully-searchable and fully-printable. (254pp, 1.87 Mb)