An illustrated, abridged, version of Toynbee's twelve-volume work on the process of history
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The late Arnold Toynbee was Director of Studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Research Professor of International History at the University of London.
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Yes, Toynbee's point of view is a bit archaic. Yes, there are more detailed, more comprehensive studies of history done since his work. And, yes, even the abridgment is heavy reading. But the overview of civilizational development and decline done by Toynbee is unmatched anywhere. The second volume of the abridgment, written 60 years ago and describing civilizations going back thousands of years, is full of glaringly obvious parallels and invaluable insights into what is happening in the world today. Get both volumes of this superb work.
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History as an apologetic for the One True God,
This review is from: A Study of History, Vol. 2: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X (Paperback)
Mr Toynbee feels that the cumulative progression through two to three stages of civilizations is in order to advance the discovery of higher religions; and that they reveal the One True God. He admits that science has removed god from astronomy, cosmology, biology, physics and psychology. Therefore he writes that god must be in the subconscious. This is the classic "god of the gaps": i.e. god, or the evidence for god, resides in what remains to be understood.
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THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves within their own limits of space and time, without reference to extraneous historical events. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transfrontier barbarians, alien universal state, living higher religions, other higher religions, internal proletariat, parochial states, external proletariat, secondary civilizations, cultural radiation, disintegrating civilization, encounters between civilizations, primary civilizations, aggressive civilization, universal states, dominant minority, fratricidal warfare, political plane, creative minority, secular civilization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian Era, Western Christendom, United States, Far Eastern, Christian Church, Western Christian, Orthodox Christendom, Soviet Union, Achaemenian Empire, Time of Troubles, Western Europe, British Indian, British Raj, Ts'in She Hwang-ti, Liu Pang, Roman Emperor, Great Britain, Arab Caliphate, First World War, Law of God, One True God, West European, Industrial Revolution, New York, Peter the Great New!
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transfrontier barbarians, alien universal state, living higher religions, other higher religions, internal proletariat, parochial states, external proletariat, secondary civilizations, cultural radiation, disintegrating civilization, encounters between civilizations, primary civilizations, aggressive civilization, universal states, dominant minority, fratricidal warfare, political plane, creative minority, secular civilization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian Era, Western Christendom, United States, Far Eastern, Christian Church, Western Christian, Orthodox Christendom, Soviet Union, Achaemenian Empire, Time of Troubles, Western Europe, British Indian, British Raj, Ts'in She Hwang-ti, Liu Pang, Roman Emperor, Great Britain, Arab Caliphate, First World War, Law of God, One True God, West European, Industrial Revolution, New York, Peter the Great New!
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- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 134, page 136, and page 137
- Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson on page 244, page 245, and page 248
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 of 6 (Everyman's Library) by Edward Gibbon on page 244, and Back Matter
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon on page 244, and Back Matter
- The French Revolution by J.M. Thompson on page 56
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