The origins of world history: Arnold Toynbee before the First World War.(Biography)

The Australian Journal of Politics and History | September 1, 2004| | Copyright

As a monument to the twentieth-century historical imagination, Arnold Toynbee's hugely ambitious A Study of History stands alone. Certainly there were many others in the last century who attempted to survey the meaning of history on a grand scale: Oswald Spengler in Der Untergang des Abendlandes; H. G. Wells in his Outline of History; Will (and Ariel) Durant in their Story of Civilization. But Spengler and Wells limited their enquiries to a mere two volumes; the Durants restricted theirs to western civilization--and never made it past Napoleon. But Toynbe'e's Study took ten ...

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