A study of history
Toynbee's analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations has been acknowledged as an achievement without parallel in modern scholarship. This abridgement, while reducing the work to one-sixth of its original size, preserves its method, atmosphere, texture, and for the most part, the author's very words
Print Book, English, 1987, ©1957
Oxford University Press, New York, 1987, ©1957
2 volumes ; 21 cm
9780195050813, 9780195001990, 9780195001983, 9780195050806, 0195050819, 0195001990, 0195001982, 0195050800
16276526
Volume 1. (Abridgement of volumes I-V). The geneses of civilizations
The growths of civilizations
The breakdowns of civilizations
The disintegrations of civilizations. Volume 2. (Abridgement of volumes VI-X.) Universal states
Universal churches
Heroic ages
Contracts between civilizations in space
Contacts between civilizations in time
Rhythms in the histories of civilizations
The prospects of the Wester civilization
The inspirations of historians