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  • The Industrial Revolution

    by Arnold Toynbee ...
    The subject of these lectures is the Industrial and Agrarian Revolution at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Including chapters on England in 1760, the mercantile system and Adam Smith, the growth of pauperism and the future of the working classes. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turkey: a Past and a Future

    by Arnold Toynbee ...
    "Turkey: A Past and a Future" by Arnold Toynbee explores the rich historical tapestry of Turkey, delving into its cultural, political, and social evolution. Toynbee examines the influences that have shaped Turkey from ancient civilizations through the Ottoman Empire to the modern republic. He highlights the complexities of Turkish identity and the interplay between tradition and modernity. The ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Study of History

    Abridgement of Volumes I-VI

    by Arnold J. Toynbee ...
    Series series Royal Institute of International Affairs
    Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • A Study of History

    Abridgement of Volumes VII-X

    by Arnold J. Toynbee ...
    Series series Royal Institute of International Affairs
    Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent enterprise preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. First published in 1947 and 1957, ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • A Study of History

    Abridgement of Volumes VII-X

    by Arnold J. Toynbee ...
    Series series Royal Institute of International Affairs
    Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent enterprise preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. First published in 1947 and 1957, ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • The Industrial Revolution: A Translation into Modern English

    by Arnold Toynbee, Industrial Systems Research ...
    Series Book 8 - ISR Economic growth & performance studies
    An easier-to-read current language version of the 1884 classic – with a new extended editorial foreword.Arnold Toynbee’s 1884 book is the pioneering general study of the Industrial Revolution. The author combines history and economics to examine its key features, causes and effects.Toynbee rejects the notion that economic development is subject to any immutable “iron laws”. For him, there are no ... Read more

    $12.45 CAD

  • Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two

    by Garcilaso de la Vega ...
    Translated by Harold V. Livermore ...
    The two-part classic history of the Incan empire's origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards.Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important ... Read more

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  • Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation

    by Arnold Joseph Toynbee ...
    "One of the most thrilling and most eloquent appeals that has ever been written." T. P. O'Connor."Authoritative account of the massacres in Armenia, and of the relation of German officials thereto." -Hart, America at War"Concise but conclusive presentation of evidence for general reader." - Collected Materials for the Study of the War, 1918"The details were sickening and almost unprintable." - The ... Read more

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  • The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria--Serbia--Greece--Rumania--Turkey

    by Nevill Forbes; D. G. Hogarth ; David Mitrany ; Arnold Toynbee ...
    "The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey" is a comprehensive exploration of the complex historical tapestry of the Balkan region. Authored by notable historians including Nevill Forbes, D. G. Hogarth, David Mitrany, and Arnold Toynbee, the book delves into the intricate relationships and conflicts that have shaped the nations of the Balkans. It provides a detailed ... Read more

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  • Armenian Atrocities

    The Murder of a Nation

    by Arnold Joseph Toynbee ...
    "One of the most thrilling and most eloquent appeals that has ever been written." -T. P. O'Connor."Authoritative account of the massacres in Armenia, and of the relation of German officials thereto." -Hart, America at War"Concise but conclusive presentation of evidence for general reader." - Collected Materials for the Study of the War, 1918"The details were sickening and almost un... ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    I Agree with a Pagan

    A "This I Believe" Essay

    by Arnold Toynbee ...
    Narrated by Arnold Toynbee ...
    Series series This I Believe

    Unabridged

    4 min

    In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, historian Arnold Toynbee describes how relating to others, even when it causes us to suffer, makes us human, in "I Agree With A Pagan", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series.This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with the series title. The ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Renaissance in Japan

    A Cultural Survey of the Seventeenth Century

    by Kenneth P. Kirkwood ...
    Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan's literary giants-forerunners of today's modern Japanese writers.Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years of the early Tokugawa era, the old aristocratic culture was confronted with the new plebeian awakening, giving rise to ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD