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- Arnold Toynbee (/ ˈtɔɪnbi /; 23 August 1852 – 9 March 1883) was an English economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working classes.
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Arnold Toynbee (/ ˈ t ɔɪ n b i /; 23 August 1852 – 9 March 1883) was an English economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working classes.
Arnold Toynbee (born August 23, 1852, London, England—died March 9, 1883, Wimbledon) was an English economist and social reformer noted for his public service activities on behalf of the working class. Toynbee, the son of a surgeon, graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1878.
Arnold J. Toynbee was an English historian whose 12-volume A Study of History (1934–61) put forward a philosophy of history, based on an analysis of the cyclical development and decline of civilizations, that provoked much discussion.
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Arnold Toynbee was born in Savile Row, London on 23 August 1852 and died in Wimbledon on 9 March 1883. Two unexpected events shaped his formative years and later ... From: Toynbee, Arnold in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy »
Arnold Toynbee, best known for his lectures on the Industrial Revolution (published posthumously in May 1884), was during the late 1870s and early 1880s a major influence on the shape and direction of the interest at Oxford in socio-economic questions and their history. Born in London on 23 August 1852, Arnold Toynbee was the fourth child and ...
Toynbee's major work was an attempt at a universal history studying the rise and fall of major civilisations. Though its inevitable generalisations have subsequently been largely discredited, the questions that he raised in the attempt mark him out as one of the mid–20th century's most significant philosophers of history.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE'S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY' PITIRIM A. SOROKIN I. OUTLINE AND APPRECIATION REGARDLESS of the subsequent criticism, Toynbee's A study of his-tory is one of the most significant works of our time in the field of historical synthesis. Although several volumes of it are yet to come,
