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| the world and the west toynbee: The World and the West Arnold Toynbee, 1953 |
| the world and the west toynbee: Civilization on Trial Arnold Joseph Toynbee, 1971 |
| the world and the west toynbee: The World and the West, by Arnold Toynbee,... Arnold Toynbee, 1954 |
| the world and the west toynbee: 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. |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Western Question in Greece and Turkey Arnold Toynbee, 1923 |
| the world and the west toynbee: 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. |
| the world and the west toynbee: The East and the West , 1868 |
| the world and the west toynbee: Civilization on Trial Arnold Toynbee, 1949 |
| the world and the west toynbee: An Historian's Approach to Religion Arnold J. Toynbee, 1956 |
| the world and the west toynbee: War and Civilization Arnold Toynbee, Albert Vann Fowler, 1950 |
| the world and the west toynbee: A Study of History Arnold Toynbee, 1934 |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Arnold Toynbee, Great Britain. Foreign Office, 1916 |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Rise of the West William Hardy McNeill, 1967 |
| the world and the west toynbee: Choose Life Arnold Toynbee, Daisaku Ikeda, 2023-08-06 For Time magazine Toynbee was ’an international sage’ and certainly in the same bracket as ‘Einstein, Schweitzer or Bertrand Russell’. Daisaku Ikeda is a figure of global stature, the spiritual leader of a worldwide lay Buddhist organization devoted to the promotion of education, culture and peace. Between 1972 and 1974 Toynbee and Ikeda discussed many of the vital issues which confronted their societies in the early 1970s, all of which remain current and significant. Indeed, topics such as the problems of pollution, dwindling natural resources, conflict and war, the role of religion, and population growth, are even more pressing than they were thirty years ago. In this influential and inspiring volume, which records their wide-ranging conversations, the challenge issued by both men is framed as follows: will humankind choose to salvage its destiny by a revolution in thinking and morals? Or will disaster ensue if it pursues its present course towards self-destruction and the despoliation of the environment? While recognizing that our survival is threatened by the imbalance between human immaturity and technological achievement, the optimistic message of this classic dialogue is that man-made evils have a man-made cure. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Arnold Toynbee and the Crisis of the West Marvin Perry, 1982 Studie over de ideeën van de Britse historicus (1889-1975) |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Toynbee Convector Ray Bradbury, 2019-07-30 From “one of science fiction’s grand masters” (Library Journal), a new reissue of Ray Bradbury’s The Toynbee Convector: a collection of twenty-two stories, including the continuing saga of H.G. Well’s time traveler and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy. The world’s only time traveler finally reveals his secret. An old man’s memory of World War I conjures ghostly parachutists. An Egyptian mummy turns up in an Illinois cornfield. A lonely Martian prepares to face his doom. From the iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, The Toynbee Convector is a true cause for celebration. The twenty-two classic tales in this special Ray Bradbury collection begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives, in common thoughts and memories, and then take off into the farthest reaches of the imagination. “The fiction creates the truth in this lovely exercise in utopian dreaming” (Publishers Weekly)—stunning stories that could only come from the brilliant mind of Ray Bradbury. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Acquaintances Arnold Toynbee, 1967 |
| the world and the west toynbee: The West Georgios Varouxakis, 2025-07-08 A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. “The West” was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders. It gradually emerged as of the 1820s and was then, Varouxakis shows, decisively promoted in the 1840s by the French philosopher Auguste Comte (whose political project, incidentally, was passionately anti-imperialist). The need for the use of the term “the West” emerged to avoid the confusing or unwanted consequences of the use of “Europe.” The two overlapped, but were not identical, with the West used to differentiate from certain “others” within Europe as well as to include the Americas. After examining the origins, Varouxakis traces the many and often astonishingly surprising changes in the ways in which the West has been understood, and the different intentions and consequences related to a series of these contested definitions. While other theories of the West consider only particular aspects of the concept and its history (if only in order to take aim at its reputation), Varouxakis’s analysis offers a comprehensive account that reaches to the present day, exploring the multiplicity of current, and not least, prospective future meanings. He concludes with an examination of how, since 2022, definitions and membership of the West have been reworked to consider Ukraine, as the evolution and redefinitions continue. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Surviving the Future Arnold J. Toynbee, Director of Studies Arnold J Toynbee, 1971-09-15 |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Islamic World Since the Peace Settlement Arnold Toynbee, 1927 |
| the world and the west toynbee: This Fleeting World David Christian, 2018-06-24 This Fleeting World is the smallest book of big history, telling the story of the universe and history of humanity in less than one hundred pages. Prize-winning historian David Christian covers it all in this compact, accessible, and inspiring guide to the history of everything, from stars and empires to cities, the World Wide Web, capitalism, and globalization. David Christian's approach to human history and big history is a call to action, based on a profound and fresh understanding of our place in the universe. This book is essential reading for our time. David Christian asks big questions. Will contemporary challenges will lead to the emergence of a new global system capable of ecological, economic, and political stability? Or is the accelerating pace of change a prelude to a sudden, sharp collapse that will drive many parts of the world back to the productivity levels of the early agrarian era? He presents our origin story and the history of women and men across the entire world, within the framework of the universe explaining, for example, that the chemicals we are made of come from supernovae. He tells the human story as a story of changes: changes in the ways we produce and distribute food, move from place to place, organize ourselves into communities, explore and populate our environment, and both create and respond to crises. He gives us maps of time, history on different temporal-spatial scales, and even offers paths to locate evidence that might challenge his big story. Big history leads to strategies for building a more sustainable world, and Berkshire Publishing is proud to offer this new edition of a big history for our common future. The 2018 edition has been expanded and updated for the general reader; there is also an earlier edition designed for use with AP World History and other courses, which included a teachers' guide. |
| the world and the west toynbee: The World and the West Arnold J. Toynbee, 2003-01 |
| the world and the west toynbee: Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England Arnold Toynbee, 1887 |
| the world and the west toynbee: Civilizations and World Systems Stephen K. Sanderson, 1995 Leading figures in the fields of civilizational studies and sociology and political science join to compare and contrast their assumptions and conclusions about broad-scale social and historical change. |
| the world and the west toynbee: 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. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Improvised Continent Richard Cándida Smith, 2017-08-25 How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard Cándida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural exchange programs, some run by the government and others by philanthropies and major cultural institutions, brought many of the most important artists and writers of Latin America to live and work in the United States. Improvised Continent is the first book to focus on cultural exchange inside the United States and how Americans responded to Latin American writers and artists. Moving masterfully between the history of ideas, biography, institutional history and politics, and international relations, and engaging works in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, Cándida Smith synthesizes over seventy years of Pan-American cultural activity in the United States. The stories behind Diego Rivera's murals, the movies of Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the poetry of Gabriela Mistral, the photography of Genevieve Naylor, and the novels of Carlos Fuentes—these works and artists, along with many others, challenged U.S. citizens about their place in the world and about the kind of global relations the country's interests could allow. Improvised Continent provides a profoundly compassionate portrayal of the Latin American artists and writers who believed their practices might create a more humane world. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands Jurgen Schmandt, Aysegül Kibaroglu, Regina Buono, Sephra Thomas, 2021-09-16 This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir siltation, and decreased water flows. Unchecked, they will see reduced food production and endanger the economic livelihood of basin populations. The authors suggest how to respond to these challenges without loss of food production, drinking water, or environmental health. The analysis of the political, hydrological, and environmental conditions within each basin gives policymakers, engineers, and researchers interested in the water/sustainability nexus a better understanding of engineered rivers in arid lands. |
| the world and the west toynbee: 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. |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Deluge J. Adam Tooze, 2014 First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane--Title page verso. |
| the world and the west toynbee: 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. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Studies on Collingwood, History and Civilization Jan van der Dussen, 2015-11-13 This volume is divided into three parts. The first explores various aspects of Collingwood’s philosophy of history, offering a follow-up to themes discussed in the author’s revised edition of History as a Science. The Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood(Springer, 2012). After a general introduction to Collingwood’s philosophy of history, his manuscript The Principles of History of 1939 is discussed. This manuscript was considered ‘lost’ for some time but has been rediscovered in 1995. Other topics dealt with are Collingwood’s philosophy of history in the year of his An Autobiography(1939), the philosophical context of his re-enactment theory, his views on the notions of process, progress, and civilization, as well as his unusual claim that history is a science. The following four essays of the second part deal with various aspects relating to the study of history and historiography. As regards the latter subject, attention is paid to the works of Herodotus and Toynbee, who correspond in having a wide scope and having been under debate. With respect to the study of history, the crucial notion of evidence is addressed, while a critical appraisal is made of the way the idea of a 'real' past is dealt with by Ankersmit. The third part of the volume discusses issues related to Western civilization and culture, and topics that are of global relevance. Both are dealt with from a historical and philosophical perspective. The first two essays focus on the rupture that occurred in Europe since the end of the eighteenth century as regards the relationship between past, present, and future, resulting in a loss of historical consciousness, and feelings of disorientation and crisis. The last three essays address the global issues of the responsibility for future generations and universal human rights, as well as the more general theme of the relationship between the West and the non-Western world. |
| the world and the west toynbee: 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. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Carl Jung and Arnold Toynbee John Gary Sparks, 2017 The personal experiences that Jung examined and wrote about do not only exist inside us, they also exist outside in the outer, material world. Apparently the psyche is not limited to what is inside. This insight led Jung to develop his views on acausal coincidence, or synchronicity. Likewise, Toynbee explored the patterns he saw between inner images and external reality in the shape of historical events. We see in this book that, quite independently, Jung and Toynbee provide answers to similar questions.-- |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Western World and Japan Sir George Bailey Sansom, 1973 |
| the world and the west toynbee: Rise and Decline of Civilizations Salomon Wald, 2014 Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared Diamond, who describe the rise and decline of nations and civilizations. None of these is a historian of Judaism. The key question of the book is whether the reasons that explain the rise, decline, and fall of other civilizations could apply to the Jews as well. The answer of the author is a qualified yes. From the work of these historians he extracts 12 drivers, or factors that explain rise and decline, from religion to natural catastrophes. Reviewing the Jewish history of more than 3,000 years against the background of these drivers opens fascinating new vistas for the general reader, and may be particularly useful to historians and politicians. |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Present-day Experiment in Western Civilization Arnold Toynbee, 1962 |
| the world and the west toynbee: The Idea of the West Alastair Bonnett, 2017-04-29 The West is on everyone's lips: it is defended, celebrated, hated. But how and why did it emerge? And whose idea is it? This book is about representations of the West. Drawing on sources from across the world - from Russia to Japan, Iran to Britain - it argues that the West is not merely a Western idea but something that many people around the world have long been creating and stereotyping. The Idea of the West looks at how the great political and ethnic forces of the last century defined themselves in relation to the West, addresses how Soviet communism, 'Asian spirituality', 'Asian values' and radical Islamism used and deployed images of the West. Both topical and wide-ranging, it offers an accessible but provocative portrait of a fascinating subject and it charts the complex relationship between whiteness and the West. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Conceptualizing the West in International Relations Thought J. O'Hagan, 2002-04-09 West is a concept widely used in international relations, but we rarely reflect on what we mean by the term. Conceptions of and what the West is vary widely. This book examines conceptions of the West drawn from writers from diverse historical and intellectual contexts, revealing both interesting parallels and points of divergence. It also reflects on implications of these different perceptions of how we understand the role of the West, and its interactions with other civilizational identities. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Civilization Paulo Butti di Lima, 2022-09-29 From the U.S. military intervention in the Middle East 2001, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the clash of civilizations theses have been widely used. What is their role in framework of identity politics? This book shows the flexible and multiple use of civilizational narratives in historical and political developments and geographical areas. |
| the world and the west toynbee: Essays in European History June K. Burton, 1989 This volume appears as the product of efforts made by the executive committee of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association over a period of several years to enhance the prestige of the organization and the quality of the program of the annual meetings. Essays include: Psychoanalyzing the Psychoanalyst: Writing the Freud Biography, Peter Gay; Allied Psychological Interpretations of Germans and Nazis During and After World War II, Louise E. Hoffman; London Quakers and the Business of Abolition: A Case for Collective Biography, Judith Jennings; The Experience of Motherhood in Early-Victorian England, Nancy Fix Anderson; Bertha von Suttner, Gender, and the Representation of War, Anne O. Dzamba; Toynbee and the Historical Profession, William H. McNeill; The Austrian Military Response to the French Revolution and Napoleon: The Problem of Popular Participation in War, Gunther E. Rothenberg; Italy's Peculiar Institution: Internal Police Exile, 1861-1914, Richard Bach Jensen; From Theory to Practice: The Reorientation in Mechanical Engineering Education and Bourgeois Society in Germany, 1873-1914, C. W. R. Gispen; Gertrud B, umer and the Weimar Republic: 'New Jerusalem' or 'Politics as Usual?', Catherine E. Boyd; Entering the Corridors of Power: English Women and the High Civil Service, 1925-1945, Gail L. Savage; The Politics of Opposition: German Socialists and the Tirpitz Plan, 1898-1912, Dennis Sweeney. Co-published with the Southern Historical Association |
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