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.
Published by the Allies' most respected historians on the eve of World War I, this book served as a backgrounder on one of Europe's key trouble spots. Still a superb overview of a region which remains unsettled to this day.This masterfully crafted eBook faithfully preserves the 1916 revised second edition. It is fully-searchable and fully-printable. (254pp, 1.87 Mb)
The author writes "In the first and third parts of 'Experiences' I am the subject as well as the narrator. I the second part I am an observer and an appraiser. This second part is a survey of, and a commentary on, human afffairs in my lifetime." That lifetime, he points out, has been remarkable both for the extension through medical science of the individual's chances of longevity, and for the unprecedented rapidity of change in science and technology, education and public affairs. The personal writings in the first section show how he reached the standpoint from which he observes the world. He adds in the third part a collection of verses he has written at various times, mainly in Greek and Latin.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889 -1975) was a British historian. Toynbee worked for the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office during World War I and served as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Toynbee presents history as the rise and fall of civilizations, rather than the history of nations or of ethnic groups. Turkey: A Past and a Future was written in 1917. This is an excellent reference book for anyone interested in Turkish history.
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