Arnold Joseph Toynbee was born on Palm Sunday, 14 April 1889, in his great uncle's house near Paddington station, London. His name was a burden in itself, commemorating, as it did, the infant's famous uncle, Arnold, and his spectacularly successful grandfather, Joseph. The burden became the greater as his father's career faltered, focusing his mother's hopes and aspirations more and more on her…
T change, growth, and diversification, is today troubled by increas- ing doubts about its purposes and prospects. At the end of a pe- riod in which more historians produced more research in more fields than ever before, they stand wondering where the extraordinary boom of the postwar years had led them. It seems ironic that during the long decades of genteel poverty and painful maturation, even…
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