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Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Born

in London, England, The United Kingdom

April 14, 1889

Died

October 22, 1975

Genre

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Not the same as Arnold Toynbee, economist and nephew of Arnold Joseph Toynbee

British educator Arnold Joseph Toynbee noted cyclical patterns in the growth and decline of civilizations for his 12-volume Study of History (1934-1961).

He went to Winchester college and Balliol college, Oxford.

During both world wars, he worked for the foreign office. He additionally published Nationality and the War (1915), The Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation (1915), The German Terror in France: An Historical Record (1917), and Turkey, a Past and a Future (1917). He attended the peace conference of Paris in 1919 as a delegate.

From 1919 to 1924, Arnold J. Toynbee served as professor of modern Greek and Byzantine at King's college, ...more

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	A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6 by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, David Churchill Somervell (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 1947 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Study of History, abridged by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, David Churchill Somervell (abridger), Jane Caplan (editor) 4.10 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1957 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 7-10 by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, David Churchill Somervell (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1957 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	تاريخ البشرية by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, أرنولد توينبي, نقولا زياده (ترجمة) 4.05 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civilization on Trial 3.84 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1948 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Study of History, Vol 1: Introduction; The Geneses of Civilizations (A Study of History, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1934 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Choose Life: A Dialogue 4.38 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1976 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World and the West 3.67 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1953 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turkey: A Past And A Future 3.62 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1926 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	تاريخ الحضارة الهيلينية by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, أرنولد توينبي, رمزي جرجس (ترجمة) 3.56 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1959 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Study of History (12 books)
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“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
― Arnold Toynbee

tags: cultural-decay

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“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
― Arnold Joseph Toynbee

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“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.”
― Arnold Joseph Toynbee

tags: cultural-decay

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