TY - JOUR
AU - McNeill, William H.
AB - Reviews of Books GENERAL integrated into it, since they, too, follow the chron­ icle format. The proportions of the book will surprise most ARNOLD TOYNBEE. Mankind and Mother Earth: A readers. Mid-point almost coincides with the Narrative History of the World. New York: Oxford Christian era, and the last two centuries require University Press. 1976. Pp. xi, 64!. $19.50. only twenty-seven pages. Toynbee clearly means This is A. J. Toynbee's last book, finished in 1973 to tell us that world history since 1763 bulks no and published posthumously. Its principal interest larger in the overall record of mankind and lies in the ways Toynbee's thinking developed after Mother Earth than do the achievements of Sumer he wrote his famous A Study of History. In this work, and Egypt before 2181 B.C. which occupy almost for instance, his introductory and terminal chap­ the same number of pages. After so many details of ters focus on man's relationship with the bio­ ancient state-building it is perhaps tonic to find sphere-a concept absent from his earlier thought. world politics since 1763 condensed into the brief Throughout he exhibits more interest than before compass of about half a dozen pages (pp. 566-68, in 
TI - Arnold Toynbee. Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World. New York: Oxford University Press. 1976. Pp. xi, 641. $19.50
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/82.1.60
DA - 1977-02-01
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SP - 60
EP - 61
VL - 82
IS - 1
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