A study of history
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
Print Book, English, 1987, ©1957
Oxford University Press, New York, 1987, ©1957