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Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH FBA ( / ˈtɔɪnbi /; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London.
Arnold J. Toynbee was an English historian whose 12-volume A Study of History (1934–61) put forward a philosophy of history, based on an analysis of the cyclical development and decline of civilizations, that provoked much discussion. Toynbee was a nephew of the 19th-century economist Arnold.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a monumental synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global ...
A Study of History is a 12-volume universal history by the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, published from 1934 to 1961. It received enormous popular attention but according to historian Richard J. Evans, "enjoyed only a brief vogue before disappearing into the obscurity in which it has languished." [1]
Arnold Toynbee (born August 23, 1852, London, England—died March 9, 1883, Wimbledon) was an English economist and social reformer noted for his public service activities on behalf of the working class. Toynbee, the son of a surgeon, graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1878.
Nov 24, 2019 · Professor Arnold Toynbee—eminent British historian and author of the ten-volume work A Study of History—talks with Harvard teaching fellow Christopher Wright in this NBC interview from 1955.
May 14, 2018 · The first intellectual influence of importance in the life of the English economist Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883) was his father, Joseph, a surgeon and fellow of the Royal Society. Guided by his father, Toynbee developed a taste for the finer models of English prose, especially the Bible, Milton, Gibbon, and Burke.
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