![]() ![]() ![]() `Anyone interested in the meaning of history, the life and death of civilizations, and the part now being played by our own culture in the whole story of mankind will surely find something in these magnificently fertile studies by one of the very greatest intellects of our day.' _The New Yorker_. `By far the most audacious and imaginative view of man's time on earth yet undertaken by any historian.Reading it is a major intellectual adventure.' _Time Magazine_. The Guardian, Books of the Day from June 26, 1934, in on 30/10/99 nobody can doubt its immense importance to an age that is in disorder because men's habits of mind keep them in a small world while their economic life puts them in a large. ![]() here the reader is offered not some clever and arresting adaptation of the latest novelty in psychology or biology to politics but a large, measured, tranquil and philosophical examination of history by a writer who adds to the rare intellectual equipment needed for so Herculean a task the advantage of experience of public life and contact with foreign scholars and politicians. It would have struck the imagination of any age by its originality, its range, its learning and its power. It is safe to say that there can be few people for whom the reading of Mr Toynbee's work will not be a deeply significant event. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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