Toynbee Reappraisals / / ed. by C.T. Mcintire, Marvin Perry.

Arnold J. Toynbee’s voluminous studies of world history embraced every civilization and religion of the past and present. His general theory of the rise and fall of cultures remains the most comprehensive attempt ever made to understand the recurrent processes of universal history. His name has ente...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Toynbee's Achievement --
Toynbee's Life and Thought: Some Unresolved Questions --
Toynbee: An Historian's Conscience --
Toynbee's Philosophy of History: His Christian Period --
Toynbee and the Meaning of Athens and Jerusalem --
Toynbee: The Time Traveller --
Toynbee as a Prophet of World Civilization --
A Study of History and a World at War: Toynbee's Two Great Enterprises --
Toynbee's Interpretation of Russian History --
Toynbee on the United States --
Toynbee and Jewish History --
Toynbee Amended and Updated --
Working with Toynbee: A Personal Reminiscence --
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Summary:Arnold J. Toynbee’s voluminous studies of world history embraced every civilization and religion of the past and present. His general theory of the rise and fall of cultures remains the most comprehensive attempt ever made to understand the recurrent processes of universal history. His name has entered the short list of historical thinkers that every generation feels compelled to encounter.In this volume twelve historians of widely differing specializations re-examine Toynbee’s work. Well aware that he received apparently devastating criticism during his lifetime, they are nevertheless convinced that this scope and creativity are such that no all-encompassing dismissal of him is possible. Their essays reconsider critically a wide range of topics about Toynbee – his life, his religion, his thought about history and international affairs, his global vision. The editors provide an initial essay analysing his method and major concepts and assessing his overall achievement.The volume is published to commemorate the centenary of Toynbee’s birth. It provides a timely reassessment of the most widely reviewed historian of our century.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781487577667
9783110490947
DOI:10.3138/9781487577667
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by C.T. Mcintire, Marvin Perry.