Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195058631 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Igor Biryukov said His non-Eurocentric ideas are relevant today. When Henry Luce [a magazine publisher who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"] met Toynbee in New York in 19His non-Eurocentric ideas are relevant today Igor Biryukov When Henry Luce [a magazine publisher who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"] met Toynbee in New York in 1942 he was very impressed. In March 1947 Henry Luce put Toynbee's picture on the cover of Time magazine. The enthusiasm Luce and the American establishment developed for Toynbee's ideas suited the American public. They needed guida. "His non-Eurocentric ideas are relevant today" according to Igor Biryukov. When Henry Luce [a magazine publisher who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"] met Toynbee in New York in 19His non-Eurocentric ideas are relevant today Igor Biryukov When Henry Luce [a magazine publisher who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"] met Toynbee in New York in 1942 he was very impressed. In March 1947 Henry Luce put Toynbee's picture on the cover of Time magazine. The enthusiasm Luce and the American establishment developed for Toynbee's ideas suited the American public. They needed guida. 2 he was very impressed. In March 19His non-Eurocentric ideas are relevant today Igor Biryukov When Henry Luce [a magazine publisher who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"] met Toynbee in New York in 1942 he was very impressed. In March 1947 Henry Luce put Toynbee's picture on the cover of Time magazine. The enthusiasm Luce and the American establishment developed for Toynbee's ideas suited the American public. They needed guida. 7 Henry Luce put Toynbee's picture on the cover of Time magazine. The enthusiasm Luce and the American establishment developed for Toynbee's ideas suited the American public. They needed guida. he was very impressed. In March 19His non-Eurocentric ideas are relevant today Igor Biryukov When Henry Luce [a magazine publisher who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day"] met Toynbee in New York in 1942 he was very impressed. In March 1947 Henry Luce put Toynbee's picture on the cover of Time magazine. The enthusiasm Luce and the American establishment developed for Toynbee's ideas suited the American public. They needed guida. 7 Henry Luce put Toynbee's picture on the cover of Time magazine. The enthusiasm Luce and the American establishment developed for Toynbee's ideas suited the American public. They needed guida. "Any student of Toynbee should read" according to Schmerguls. I confess I only read D. C. Somervell's abridgment of Arnold Toynbee's first six volumes A Study of History, so I cannot claim to be a student of his work, but I was impressed mightily by that reading. This biography of Toynbee by the eminent historian William H. McNeill is of consistent interest and does not fail to relate Toynbee's troubled personal life as well as explore . Splendidly Researched and Written Biography Arnold J. Toynbee's reputation precedes him rather formidably. Like the Church Fathers Origen and St. Augustine, or modern thinkers such as Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud, Toynbee was a man of the highest learning whose immense body of written scholarship is likely seminal in many aspects, but which, due to its massive size, can seem quite intimidating to the average reader
He is a past president of the American Historical Association, a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary member of the Royal Historical Society.. About the Author:William H. McNeill is Professor of History Emeritus at the U
By weaving together Toynbee's thought and times this clear-sighted book may help restore the historian's reputation. As this sympathetic critical biography shows, Toynbee was a man of many contradictions: he favored a U.N. A shy man, with an almost pathological fear of running out of money, Toynbee endured the suicide of his son Anthony and saw his last years marred by difficulties with his first wife and his oldest son, Philip. but believed peace was more likely to be achieved under a world empire. According to McNeill ( Rise of the West ), Toynbee extended knowledge beyond the limits set by other historians, but his work is poetic in essence and ought to be evaluated as such. From Publishers Weekly During the 1950s, Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) was perhaps the world's best-known living historian; his crowning achievement was the Study of History , which in condensed form became a bestseller. Although his global and prophetic vision was widely and vigorously attacked, Toy
McNeill illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of A Study of History as well as the countless other works penned by this prolific writer, examining the responses of other historians (including the devastating attack mounted by Hugh Trevor Roper) and Toynbee's attempts to modify his Study to answer these criticisms. What emerges is both poignant and thought-provoking, a biography and a commentary about how history is written and how it should be pursued. Indeed, such was the regard for his Study that Time magazine, in a cover article on Toynbee published in 1947, declared that he had "found history Ptolemaic and left it Copernican." In Arnold Toynbee: A Life, William H. And McNeill also examines Toynbee's tormented personal life, including his troubled marriage to Rosalind Murray (the daughter of Gilbert Murray), and the suicide of his son Anthony. At the height of his fame, he was the most renowned scholar in the world, acclaimed as the author of the monumental, 10-volume A Study of History. McNeill weaves