A Study of History by Arnold J Toynbee, First Edition (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition; Third Printing. Xiv + [622] pp. + Fold out table. Printed (gilt) dark red cloth binding/boards, spine sunned, red publishers top stain, corners worn, spine bumped. Pages: clean, white, unmarked.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 636 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red covers. Slightly bumped corners. No other wear. Some toning to pages due to age. Binding very good. 414 pgs. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good inside and out with light general wear and handling, and a ding on upper rear edge. First complete edition in one volume. See pictures for further details, description.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First US Edition; Thirteenth Printing. 617 pages; Discoloration on endpaper gutters. Minor, faint stains to the fore-edge of textblock. Minor fading to pages. Moderate rubbing to DJ. Light wear to DJ edges, minor tears. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xii, [2], 165, [3] pages. Footnotes. Some discoloration at cover edges. Includes Preface by Arnold J. Toynbee. Also includes chapters on The War-Stricken World of To-Day; Militarism and the Military Virtues; Sparta, the Military State; Assyria, the Strong Man Armed; The Burden of Nineveh; Charlemagne and Timur Lenk; The Intoxication of Victory; Goliath and David; The Price of Progress in Military Technique; and The Failure of the Savior with the Sword. The author believes that the nations of today have the means to hold Militarism at bay until they work out a method of settling their conflicts without resort to War. Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH FBA (14 April 1889 - 22 October 1975) was a British historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College in the University of London. Toynbee in the 1918-1950 period was a leading specialist on international affairs. He is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934-1961). With his prodigious output of papers, articles, speeches and presentations, and numerous books translated into many languages, Toynbee was a widely read and discussed scholar in the 1940s and 1950s. Albert Vann Fowler was born in Syracuse, NY, in 1904. He earned an A.B. in History from Haverford College in 1927 and pursued graduate level studies in Psychology and Journalism at Columbia University from 1927 to 1928. As a committed pacifist, Albert V. Fowler joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and in 1940 became a member of the Society of Friends. A Study of History and this selected from it were issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The Royal Institute of International Affairs is an unofficial and non-political body, founded in 1920 to encourage and facilitate the scientific study of international questions. The Institute, as such, was precluded by its rules from expressing an opinion on any aspect of international affairs; opinions expressed in this book are, therefore, purely individual. Presumed First U.S. Edition and first printing thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Second Printing. Not price-clipped ($10.00 price intact). Published by Oxford, 1961. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with previous owner name on flyleaf and previous owner embossed stamp on flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 1972, first printing. 4to., 9 1/2" x 11 1/2", 576pp., over 500 illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Small bump to top corner of rear cover and some final pages. Fine in fine dust jacket. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Hardback. A classic history, 656pp, edges browning, text clean, no markings, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt lettering, pale staining on board front & back top edges. Tight binding. Straight spine. Good dust jacket, jacket edges with small rips, spine heavily browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, hardback,656pp, edges browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt titles, pale staining on board front & back top edges. Straight spine. Tight binding. Browning on end papers. Good dust jacket, jacket edges with small rips, spine heavily browned, clipped.

Softcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good in wraps. Bookseller label on rear pastedown. Foxing on text block edges. Light shelfwear and creasing on spine. ; A Galaxy Book.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket; Jacket New. First Edition Reissue. xiii+617 pp. rather faded & spottedgreen cloth case, sm scuff marks either end of spine but nothing much, internally text is clean and vg. Useful abridgment of Toynbee's magnum opus. Fold out chart at the end. Size: 8vo.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Very Good octavo xvii + 1003pp., index, First abridgement of all volumes in a single volume.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Published 1957. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. One volume only. No name, not ex library, unclipped. Tight unmarked copy. The book shows no use. Very beautiful book. 414 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. An unread book in a complete dust jacket.

Condition: Good. All 3 volumes clean and tight - no DJ's.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xvi,656pp, edges browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt titles, pale staining on board front edges, Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper edges rubbed, spine heavily browned.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, vi,712pp, edges browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt titles, pale staining on board front edges, Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper edges rubbed, spine heavily browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by DC Somervell. 1957 publication date - no other printing information. First Edition, First Printing. With corresponding number line. Book is in Very Good condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition. Chipping on top edges, tear strip noted on back edge. Protected by Mylar covering. Not price clipped. Not ex-library All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Personalization on half of rear end page. Printed stamp on FEP. Rubbing along panel edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First/Second. Volumes I, II, and III are Second Editions. Volumes IV-XII are First Editions. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spines stamped in gilt. Volume XII is bound in tan cloth with spine stamped in black and gilt. Books are in uniformly fine condition. Sunning to dust jacket spines, some volumes have price-clipped inner flaps and wear to extremities. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Volume XI is 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches.

11 volumes. Rare First Edition of each volume. Illustrated in Volume 11 with 73 maps, folding, double-page and full page, as well as a gazetteer to the ten volume work, an appendix and an index to the maps. 8vo and 4to, publisher's original green cloth, the spines lettered in gilt, Vols. VII - XI in the original printed dustjackets. A fine and handsome set, very well preserved and pleasing, the volumes with dustjackets are in very fine condition. RARE FIRST EDITION OF EACH VOLUME OF THIS MAJOR UNDERTAKING IN HISTORIOGRAPHY. 'A Study of History is a universal history by the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee. Toynbee's goal was to trace the development and decay of 19 or 21 world civilizations in the historical record, applying his model to each of these civilizations, detailing the stages through which they all pass: genesis, growth, time of troubles, universal state, and disintegration. The 19 (or 21) major civilizations, as Toynbee sees them, are: Egyptian, Andean, Sumerian, Babylonic, Hittite, Minoan, Indic, Hindu, Syriac, Hellenic, Western, Orthodox Christian (having two branches: the main or Byzantine body and the Russian branch), Far Eastern (having two branches: the main or Chinese body and the Japanese-Korean branch), Islamic (having two branches which later merged: Arabic and Iranic), Mayan, Mexican and Yucatec. Moreover, there are three "abortive civilizations" (Abortive Far Western Christian, Abortive Far Eastern Christian, Abortive Scandinavian) and five "arrested civilizations" (Polynesian, Eskimo, Nomadic, Ottoman, Spartan), for a total of 27 or 29. The volumes are named as follows: Vol I: Introduction: The Geneses of Civilizations, part one (Oxford University Press, 1934) Vol II: The Geneses of Civilizations, part two (Oxford University Press, 1934) Vol III: The Growths of Civilizations (Oxford University Press, 1934) Vol IV: The Breakdowns of Civilizations (Oxford University Press, 1939) Vol V: The Disintegrations of Civilizations, part one (Oxford University Press, 1 1939) Vol VI: The Disintegrations of Civilizations, part two (Oxford University Press, 1939) Vol VII: Universal States; Universal Churches (Oxford University Press, 1954) [as two volumes in paperback] Vol VIII: Heroic Ages; Contacts between Civilizations in Space (Encounters between Contemporaries) (Oxford University Press, 1954) Vol IX: Contacts between Civilizations in Time (Renaissances); Law and Freedom in History; The Prospects of the Western Civilization (Oxford University Press, 1954) Vol X: The Inspirations of Historians; A Note on Chronology (Oxford University Press, 1954) Vol XI: Historical Atlas and Gazetteer (Oxford University Press, 1959)A 12th volume of Reconsiderations was issued in 1961. Toynbee argues that civilizations are born out of more primitive societies, not as the result of racial or environmental factors, but as a response to challenges, such as hard country, new ground, blows and pressures from other civilizations, and penalization. He argues that for civilizations to be born, the challenge must be a golden mean; that excessive challenge will crush the civilization, and too little challenge will cause it to stagnate. He argues that civilizations continue to grow only when they meet one challenge only to be met by another, in a continuous cycle of "Challenge and Response". He argues that civilizations develop in different ways due to their different environments and different approaches to the challenges they face. He argues that growth is driven by "Creative Minorities": those who find solutions to the challenges, who inspire (rather than compel) others to follow their innovative lead. This is done through the "faculty of mimesis." Creative minorities find solutions to the challenges a civilization faces, while the great mass follow these solutions by imitation, solutions they otherwise would be incapable of discovering on their own. Toynbee does not see the breakdown of civilizations as caused by loss of control over the physical environment, by loss of control over the human environment, or by attacks from outside. Rather, it comes from the deterioration of the "Creative Minority", which eventually ceases to be creative and degenerates into merely a "Dominant Minority". He argues that creative minorities deteriorate due to a worship of their "former self," by which they become prideful and fail adequately to address the next challenge they face. He argues that the ultimate sign a civilization has broken down is when the dominant minority forms a "universal state", which stifles political creativity within the existing social order. The classic example of this is the Roman Empire, though many other imperial regimes are cited as examples. Toynbee argues that as civilizations decay, there is a "schism" within the society. In this environment of discord, people resort to archaism (idealization of the past), futurism (idealization of the future), detachment (removal of oneself from the realities of a decaying world), and transcendence (meeting the challenges of the decaying civilization with new insight. In The Clash of Civilizations (1997) by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington. Huntington viewed human history as broadly the history of civilizations and posited that the world after the end of the Cold War will be a multi-polar one of competing major civilizations divided by "fault lines." In popular culture, Toynbee's theories of historical cycles and civilisational collapse are said to have been a major inspiration for Isaac Asimov's seminal science-fiction novels, the Foundation series.' See Wiki.