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Arnold Joseph Toynbee

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Arnold Joseph Toynbee 1889-1975, English historian; nephew of Arnold Toynbee . Educated at Oxford, he served in the British foreign office during World Wars I and II and was a delegate (1919) to the Paris Peace Conference. He was professor of Greek language and history (1919-55) at the Univ. of London and director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (1925-55). A prolific scholar, Toynbee achieved his greatest fame for his monumental work, A Study of History (12 vol., 1934-61), which appeared in an abridgment by D. C. Somervell (2 vol., 1946-57). In the Study of... Read more
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Arnold Joseph Toynbee The English historian and philosopher of history Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1972) described himself as...field of study" was civilization. Arnold Toynbee was born into an upper-middle-class... Read more
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph (1889–1975), historian. His great work A Study of History (10 vols, 1934–54) is a survey of the chief civilizations...aroused much controversy. His other works include Civilization on Trial (1948) and The World and the West (1953). His son Philip Toynbee ... Read more

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