Toynbee, Arnold J — A Study Of History Volume I [ One - 1 ]

Oxford University Press 1945 3rd impression of 2nd edition. Cloth, dj, G/G. xviii+484pp, covers a little rubbed & worn with traces of damp to the upper section of the boards, spine of the edge worn & slightly grubby dustjacket yellowed. The first volume of the second edition of Toynbee's monumental universal history. Toynbee's goal was to trace the development and decay of 19 world civilizations in the historical record, applying his model to each of these civilizations, detailing the stages through which they all pass: genesis, growth, time of troubles, universal state, and disintegration.