Educated at Oxford, Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) served as a professor of Greek language and history at the University of London and as director of studies at the Royal Institute of International ...

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A South Philadelphia neighborhood, the British historian/philosopher Arnold J. Toynbee, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and a one-act play by David Mamet all turn up as important elements in the investigation ...

In March 1947, Arnold J. Toynbee appeared on the cover of Time magazine that hailed him as the most provocative historian since Karl Marx. In 1952, he delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the ...

RECONSIDERATIONS (740 pp.)—Arnold J. Toynbee—Oxford ($10). THE INTENT OF TOYNBEE’S HISTORY (224 pp.)—Edifed by Edward T. Gargan —Loyola ($5). Scholars are not a notably generous lot. When they review ...

British historian Arnold Toynbee reiterated at a public meeting here last night his charge that the treatment of the Arabs by Israel was morally equivalent to the Nazi genocide against European Jews.

IT is now somewhat more than a quarter of a century since there appeared in the weekly Literary Supplement of the Times of London a review of Spengler’s Decline of the West, which had then been ...