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| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Civilization on Trial Arnold Joseph Toynbee, 1971 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: A Study of History Arnold Toynbee, 1934 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life William H. McNeill, 1989-04-20 One of the most remarkable thinkers of this century, Arnold Toynbee won world-wide recognition as the author of the monumental ten-volume A Study of History. Its publication and phenomenal success brought him fame and the highest praise, as the reading public proclaimed him the most renowned scholar in the world. This thought-provoking, engaging study of Toynbee, written by one of today's most eminent historians, weaves together Toynee's intellectual accomplishments and the personal difficulties of his private life. Providing both an intimate portrait of a leading thinker and a judicious evaluation of his work and his legacy for the the study of history, William H. McNeill offers both a biography and a commentary on how to write and understand history. Along with an illuminating discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of A Study of History and the countless other works written by Toynbee, McNeill offers a compelling examination of the responses of other historians (including the devastating attack launched by Hugh Trevor-Roper) and Toynbee's attempts to modify his Study to answer these criticisms. McNeill also explores his tormented personal life, including his troubled marriage to Rosalind Murray and the suicide of his son, Anthony. In this sympathetic depiction of a life, both triumphant and tragic, McNeill brings his skills to bear on one of the greatest figures in his field, illuminating a career of rare accomplishment. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Decline of the West Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps, Charles Francis Atkinson, 1991 Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long world-historical phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes Charles Hartshorne, 2010-03-29 This book presents Hartshorne's philosophical theology briefly, simply, and vividly. Throughout the centuries some of the world's most brilliant philosophers and theologians have held and perpetuated six beliefs that give the word God a meaning untrue to its import in sacred writings or in active religious devotion: God is absolutely perfect and therefore unchangeable, 2.omnipotence, 3.omniscience, 4.God's unsympathetic goodness, 5.immortality as a career after death, and 6.revelation as infalliable. Charles Hartshorne deals with these six theological mistakes from the standpoint of his process theology. Hartshorne says, The book is unacademic in so far as I am capable of being that. Only a master like Hartshorne could present such sophisticated ideas so simply. This book offers an option for religious belief not heretofore available to lay people. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Pivot Cities in the Rise and Fall of Civilizations Ahmet Davutoğlu, 2021-09-30 Based on the author’s long experience in academic life and the public realm, especially in foreign policy, this book argues that a single categoric classification of cities is inadequate, and that cities have had different and varied impacts and positions throughout the history of civilization. The author examines how the formation, transformation, destruction or reestablishment of many civilizational cities reveals a clearer picture of the cornerstones of the course of human history. These cities, which play a decisive and pivotal role in the direction of the flow of history as well as providing us with a compass to guide our efforts to understand and interpret this flow, are conceptualized by the author as civilizations’ pivot cities. This innovative book explores the role of great cities in political historical change, presenting an alternative view of these pivot cities from a culturalist perspective. Within this framework, the role played by pivot cities in the history of civilization may be considered under seven distinct headings: pioneering cities which founded civilizations; cities which were founded by civilizations; cities which were transplanted during the formation of civilizations; ghost cities which lost their importance through shifts in political power and civilizational transformation; lost cities which were destroyed by civilizations; cities on lines of geocultural/geoeconomic interaction; and cities which combine, transform or are transformed by different civilizations. The author’s concept of pivot cities explores the interplay between vital cities and civilizations, which bears on the future of globalization at a time of instability, as projected continuing de-Westernization becomes a theme in studies of global history. This book provides highly productive discussions relevant to the literature on city-civilization relationships and the historicity of pivot cities. Its clear language, rich content, deep and original perspective, interdisciplinary approach and rich bibliography will ensure that it appeals to students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including cultural studies, political science, comparative urban studies, anthropology, history and civilizational studies. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Western Question in Greece and Turkey Arnold J. Toynbee, 2019-05-15 This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Civilization on Trial Arnold Toynbee, 1949 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Religion in the Making Alfred North Whitehead, 2011-06-09 Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was a prominent English mathematician and philosopher. Religion in the Making, which originated in a series of four lectures delivered in King's Chapel, Boston, during February 1926, constitutes an exploration of the relationship between human nature and religion. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Acquaintances Arnold Toynbee, 1967 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Collapse Jared Diamond, 2011-01-04 In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society’s apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide? |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: War and Civilization Arnold Toynbee, Albert Vann Fowler, 1950 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: An Historian's Approach to Religion Arnold J. Toynbee, 1956 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: An Historical, Political, and Moral Essay on Revolutions, Ancient and Modern François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, 1815 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands Jurgen Schmandt, Aysegül Kibaroglu, Regina Buono, Sephra Thomas, 2021-09-16 Interdisciplinary volume considers how nine arid/semi-arid river basins with irrigated agriculture will survive future climate change, siltation, and decreased flow. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: World Historians and Their Goals Paul Costello, 1994 Costello analyzes paradigms of world history, focusing on seven twentieth-century historians, from H. G. Wells to William H. McNeill. He interprets central models of the history of civilizations as responses to modernism and as efforts to rescue meaningful patterns of history as a whole. Costello locates his study in the post-Nietzschean context, in which the death of God and modernism's threat to progressive ideology stimulated a perception of the crisis of Western civilization. He analyzes H. G. Wells's sense of progress threatened, in which the catastrophic potentials of modernity demand a world state; the cyclical decline of civilizations theories of Oswald Spengler, Arnold J. Toynbee, Pitirim Sorokin, Christopher Dawson, and Lewis Mumford; and the ecological metahistory of William H. McNeill. These historians, Costello finds, develop a pattern of the past that incorporates a history of the future--a pattern that perpetuates those they perceive in their study of the rise and fall of civilizations. Costello describes a reciprocal process between the historians' analyses of the past and their personal visions of the future. Such visions, he suggests, present the historian with moral imperatives that demand action in line with the hidden ends of history. Each chapter includes a biographical sketch, a study of the intellectual influences on its subject's thought, an evaluation of his goals, and a brief review of relevant criticism. The various theories are examined in light of each historian's moral and philosophic intentions and polemical goals in writing. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Rise of the West William Hardy McNeill, 1967 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Greek Historical Thought Arnold J. Toynbee, 1960-01-01 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Globalization on Trial Farhang Rajaee, 2000 Globalization on Trial challenges the conventional view that equates globalization with the expansion of the capitalist economic system. With a broad historical and holistic brush, the author presents a view of globalization that is both multidisciplinary and multicultural. What opportunities must we seize? What dangers must we overcome? Rajaee examines human governance and the paradox of globalism and nationalism (or nativism), providing a particularly fresh perspective on Islamic civilization. He also focuses on our education system and how it will have to adapt to meet the new challenges. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Beyond Victory Ruth Nanda Anshen, 1971 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Idea of Decline in Western History Arthur Herman, 2010-06-15 Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the author traces the roots of declinism and aims to show how major thinkers of the past and present, including Nietzsche, DuBois, Sartre, and Foucault, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Lawrence M. Miller, 2006-04 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Surviving the Future Arnold J. Toynbee, Director of Studies Arnold J Toynbee, 1971-09-15 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Life History Evolution Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Heitor B. F. Fernandes, Michael A. Woodley of Menie, 2018-07-04 The social sciences share a mission to shed light on human nature and society. However, there is no widely accepted meta-theory; no foundation from which variables can be linked, causally sequenced, or ultimately explained. This book advances “life history evolution” as the missing meta-theory for the social sciences. Originally a biological theory for the variation between species, research on life history evolution now encompasses psychological and sociological variation within the human species that has long been the stock and trade of social scientific study. The eighteen chapters of this book review six disciplines, eighteen authors, and eighty-two volumes published between 1734 and 2015—re-reading the texts in the light of life history evolution. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline, 2014-03-23 A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the Sea Peoples invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this First Dark Ages, Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age—and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Fall of Western Civilization Ulrik Vachet Rasmussen, 2024-11-27 Western Civilization rose to dominate the planet over the last three centuries. From the beginning of the new millennium, history of the West took a dramatic turn. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline compared to the global hegemony it had previously. This beginning of the Fall of Western Civilization is analyzed, through a historical and sociological analysis of 8 empires and the theories of Ibn Khaldun, Oliver Spengler, Arthur Toynbee, John Calhoun and the perspectives of Cicero, Plutarch, Livy, Gibbons, Durant, Vico and very many others. The basis of culture, values, formation of values, and transmission of culture is put into a historical and sociological context in connection with the formulation of the a new theory of the rise and fall of empires; the 4 phase theory of the rise and fall of empires. During the analysis of empires new population estimates are calculated for both the British Empire and the Roman Empire, utilizing new sources as well as new technology. Lastly it is attempted to ascertain the current phase of Western Civilization, based on an analysis of many different movements. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Heroic Ages Arnold J. Toynbee, 1954-12-01 Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue Arnold Toynbee, Daisaku Ikeda, 1976 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: God and the Cosmos Harry Lee Poe, Jimmy H. Davis, 2012-02-16 Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Hellenism, the History of a Civilization Arnold Toynbee, 1981 The author surveys the development of Hellenism-- Graeco-Roman Culture--from its earliest beginnings at the end of the second millennium B.C. until its decline in the seventh century of the Christian era--a period of some 1800 years. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Between Oxus and Jumna Arnold Toynbee, 1961 Noted historian's account of his recent travels through the portions of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, lying between the Oxus and Jumna Rivers. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Arnold Toynbee, Great Britain. Foreign Office, 1916 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Strange Persistence of Universal History in Political Thought Brett Bowden, 2017-03-24 This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought. Prominent in Western political thought since the middle of the eighteenth century, the idea of universal history holds that all peoples can be situated in the narrative of history on a continuum between a start and an end point, between the savage state of nature and civilized modernity. Despite various critiques, the underlying teleological principle still prevails in much contemporary thinking and policy planning, including post-conflict peace-building and development theory and practice. Anathema to contemporary ideals of pluralism and multiculturalism, universal history means that not everyone gets to write their own story, only a privileged few. For the rest, history and future are taken out of their hands, subsumed and assimilated into other people’s narrative. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography Aviezer Tucker, 2011-06-28 A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a piece of convincing fiction? The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction or whether it is coincidental, and if it has a direction, what it is, and how and why it is unfolding? The fifty entries in this Companion cover the main issues in the philosophies of historiography and history, including natural history and the practices of historians. Written by an international and multi-disciplinary group of experts, these clearly written entries present a cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the philosophies of historiography and history. This Companion will be of interest to philosophers, historians, natural historians, and social scientists. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The Present-day Experiment in Western Civilization Arnold Toynbee, 1962 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge Julius Thomas Fraser, 2021-03-09 Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.' Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a master of the subject. And while developing a theory of time as conflict, J. T. Fraser does offer many things indeed--an enormous range of ideas about matter, life, death, evolution, and value. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Cities of Destiny Arnold Joseph Toynbee, 1967 |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: A History of Civilizations Fernand Braudel, 1995-04-01 Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the event-based technique of most other texts. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: The German Terror in France Arnold Joseph Toynbee, 2023-07-18 A vivid and harrowing account of the atrocities committed by occupying German forces in France during World War I. Draws on eyewitness testimony and documentary evidence to paint a detailed picture of the horrors endured by French civilians and the resistance movement. A powerful indictment of war and tyranny. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| arnold toynbee rise and fall of civilizations: Immoderate Greatness William Ophuls, 2012 *Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own civilization is global, its collapse will also be global, as well as uniquely devastating owing to the immensity of its population, complexity, and consumption. To avoid the common fate of all past civilizations will require a radical change in our ethos-to wit, the deliberate renunciation of greatness-lest we precipitate a dark age in which the arts and adornments of civilization are partially or completely lost. |
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