Arnold Toynbee and the Western Tradition: Foreword by William H. McNeill

by Marvin Perry

Arnold Toynbee was the most prolific historian of the twentieth century. In his massive A Study of History, Toynbee made a comparative study of all the world's civilizations, surviving and extinct, analyzing their rise, growth, breakdown, and disintegration. Arnold Toynbee and the Western Tradition summarizes and appraises Toynbee's understanding of the nature, evolution, and destiny of Western civilization, focusing on his critique...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820426717
• ISBN13: 9780820426716
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 145 Pages