... contemplative and also, to avoid saying “deterministic” which here would evoke misleading associations, necessitarian. For this is an attempt to transpose not Marx but the safer figure of Arnold Toynbee to the republic’s affairs. It asserts the existence of “long cycles” in Argentina’s history which share...

...Leonard Cardenas, Jr. America and the World Revolution and Other Lectures . By Toynbee Arnold J. . New York , 1962 . Oxford University Press . Bibliography . Pp. 231 . $4.75 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 This volume consists of three sets of university...

...J. Fred Rippy Anything published by Arnold Toynbee is likely to be both thoughtful and interesting. The volume now under inspection deals mainly with the countries through which he toured rapidly during the latter part of 1966, although he devotes several pages to Mexico and Guatemala and a few...

... de Abreu and Serafim Leite particularly for their use of foreign historiography, and he places himself deliberately in this tradition in Part III, which consists primarily of essays on Arnold Toynbee and Max Weber. He demonstrates his ability to utilize European historiography by applying...

...William Bristol The War and the Neutrals. Survey of International Affairs, 1939-1946 . Edited by Toynbee Arnold and Toynbee Veronica M. . London, New York, Toronto , 1956 . Oxford University Press . Royal Institute of International Affairs . Index. Maps . Pp. x , 378 . 50s...

...Lesley Byrd Simpson Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 México y el occidente . By Toynbee Arnold . Introduction by Zea Leopoldo . Translated by Frenk Mariana . Mexico City , 1955 . Antigua Librería Robredo . México y lo Mexicano, 24 . Pp. 80 . Paper . ...

... of the history of Bolivian education. It is neither definitive nor an excellent start. The bibliography is only adequate. There are too many references to unrelated materials such as Hitler’s Mein Kampf and works by Carlyle, Toynbee, Le Bon, etc. The author starts with the pre-Inca period (which somehow...

..., possibly one-third. Whatever disparate points are being made are validated by references to the names of Prescott, Toynbee, Rivet, Stefan Zweig, Pirenne, Subercaseaux, Hjalmar Schacht, and a multitude of others. The names of Murra or Rowe do not appear in the discussions (?) on the economy of Tahuantinsuyo...

... to prejudice the country’s development, and you can explain many of the bad things that are holding us up. I met Arnold Toynbee when I was in London in 1950. I was introduced to him by the wife of Robin Humphreys, who worked with Toynbee at Chatham House. Toynbee was another important influence on me since...

... a collective concept in order to simplify their conclusions. The five non-Gainesville contributors are well-known Central Americans. José Figueres, quoted today as often as Bolívar (Toynbee rates well in this volume), plays his usual role of friendly critic of the United States. Jorge García Granados...

... ought to be pursued further, inasmuch as Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, writing early in the thirteenth century, used the term Hispani on occasion to refer to the peoples of the peninsula. Castro objects to Toynbee’s theory of challenge and response and also repudiates the impersonal approach...

... Cartwright . Foreword by Toynbee Arnold J. . Norman , 1963 . University of Oklahoma Press . Charts. Notes. Illustrations. Index . Pp. xvii , 396 . $6.95 . ...

... that Arnold Toynbee exercised a strong influence on your comparative perspective. L.Z.: Most definitely. I sent my books El positivismo and Dos etapas to him as a courtesy and asked for his comments. Toynbee replied that he had enjoyed the books because they contained an important historical...

.... G. Wells, Arnold Toynbee, and Oswald Spengler were advocating a general history of human “civilizations” to accompany (or reinforce) the more familiar and professionalized “national” histories. The severing of national and universal history was more apparent than real. For Marx, as for Toynbee...

... of history as such, but nonetheless a great diagnostician and forecaster of history), and also Heidegger and (with rather less devotion) Toynbee. I continue to be enthusiastic about those great classics of historical writing that manage to incorporate large-scale world-historical “vistas”— by Ranke...

... of his amatory advances. See Doris Meyer, Victoria Ocampo: Against the Wind and the Tide (New York, 1979), pp. 81-82. 13 Haya felt much like Arnold Toynbee vis-à-vis Jung. Toynbee, Haya notes, acknowledged that had he known Jung’s work earlier, he could have spared himself a great deal of his...

... and to Latin American history—though American history still has a strong fascination for me. As you will know, civilians were directed into particular activities, and I was asked by Arnold Toynbee to take over the direction of the Latin American section of the Foreign Research and Press Service which the Royal...

..., was not limited to the foregoing considerations. If we accept Toynbee’s model, the British colonists were forced to respond to the challenge presented by the rugged and wooded territory of New Zealand. From the start, in the first half of the nineteenth century, they sowed pastureland. Uruguay, as has already...

... played the Star Spangled Banner—probably for the first, and last, time in Bolivia. A formal dinner was organized by the municipality of Potosí, at which we all wore our overcoats because of the intense cold. There was, however, a lively and heated discussion of the English historian Arnold Toynbee...

..., and the handicrafts. Each year, also, Haya de la Torre delivers a series of lectures at the Popular University on such diverse topics as Toynbee’s concept of history or Aprista political strategy. 63 The impact of the original González Prada Popular University, however, went far beyond the initiative...