num_pages: 432
description: Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. This volume includes sections on Universal States, Universal Churches, Heroic Ages, Contacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time, Law and Freedom in History, the Prospects of the Western Civilization, and the Conclusion.Of Somervell's work, Toynbee wrote, "The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer's outlook and purpose."
language: English
title: A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 7-10
titlecomplete: A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 7-10
genres: Historical, Sociology, History, Classics, Anthropology, Philosophy, Religion, Politics, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 180
publisher: Oxford University Press