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Title: A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes 1-VI by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, D. C. Somervell ISBN: 0-19-505080-0 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: And you thought Nostrodomus was a prophet!
Comment: A Study of History is an excellent, lifetime study of how and why civilization progresses through time. Written in 1939, Toynbee predicts the rise of nationalism, the fall of the USSR, and victory of capitalism, and the enormous growth of Western culture. His central theme is simple yet true: civilizations advance by overcoming outside challenges and internal stagnation. Read this once per lifetime.
Rating: 4
Summary: 4 Stars Only Because of Abridgment
Comment: I don't normally go after other reviewers, but the dolts submitting their thoughts about this author are uninformed in the extreme. If ever there were a "desert island" author and a book that I would want to have with me on said island it is this one (though not the abridged version). Toynbee is a true polymath and one of the progenitors of Jacob Burckhardt, Daniel J. Boorstin, Jacques Barzun, et al. He delivers in concise, exquisitely rendered prose, an overview of western culture that has never been matched in terms of scope and economy - two terms that are not always congruous. For insights into the development of western civilization, its driving forces, main events, greatest influences, etc. , one need look no further than Toynbee. To compare it to Wells' work is to compare persimmons to oranges. One leaves a slightly bitter, puckery taste, the other slakes one's thirst.
Rating: 1
Summary: Muddling through history
Comment: This is one those books like Well's Outline of History that seem to reach beyond the grasp of any discipline. Is it a political denouement of historical erudition, a mystical perspective from the shoulder of giants (not cited of course), or just Lord Chicken Little establishing bona fides for advisory status for 10 Downing St. I don't know, and after two volumes of this potage including the kitchen sink, frankly, I don't care. Read Braudel's On History and save yourself a month of soporific gibberish.
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Title: The Decline of the West (Oxford Paperbacks) by Oswald Spengler, Helmut Werner, Oswald Werner ISBN: 0195066340 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Change And Habit by Arnold Toynbee ISBN: 1851680446 Publisher: Oneworld Publications Ltd Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel ISBN: 0140124896 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Social and Cultural Dynamics by Pitirim A. Sorokin ISBN: 0875580297 Publisher: Porter Sargent Pub Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World by Arnold Joseph Toynbee ISBN: 0192152572 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1976 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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