- Civilization, Philosophy, History, Maps
A masterful attempt to describe a universal history. Staggering depth of scholarship and breath of thought.
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Epic, earnest, grave and cool.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- Oxford university press, Dell Publishing, Oxford University Press, H. Milford
- Editions
- 119
- Language
- urd, French, Russian, und
- ISBN
- 9785403008679
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“THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves within their own limits of space and time, without reference to extraneous historical events.”
Arnold Joseph Toynbee (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was a British historian, philosopher of history, research professor of International History at the London School of Economics and the University of London and author of numerous books. **Source**: [Arnold J. Toynbee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee) on Wikipedia
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