Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975): Prophecy and Civilization

Review of International Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 289-301

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1. Toynbee's writings fall into three main categories: the classical writing which continued throughout; A Study of History and his reflections on the decline of civilizations, including civilizations outside Greece and Rome; and, finally, his writing on contemporary events and international relations, including the role of religion in contemporary society. S. Fiona Morton has produced the definitive A Bibliography of Arnold J. Toynbee (Oxford, 1980), which also lists the speeches, the major reviews and commentaries. It contains over 2,000 items.
2. Toynbee's other major work was the Survey of International Affairs. Joining Chatham House in 1924, he immediately produced two retrospective volumes for the years 1920-24, the first entitled The World After the Peace Conference; then, the annual Surveys for 1925 to 1937 each of which appeared in the following year; and, finally, the 1938 volume, interrupted by the outbreak of war, which appeared in late 1940. He wrote the bulk of these, farming out some sections, notably the economic ones. He also made significant contributions to the final ‘Toynbee’ volume, The Eve of War, on the events of 1939 but which did not appear until 1958; and he supervised the RIIA ten-volume set on the Second World War, writing a substantial portion of the first volume, The Initial Triumph of the Axis (1938).
3. The unpublished policy papers of the PRS period are discussed by Christopher Brewin in Arnold Toynbee and Chatham House’, Chatham House and British Foreign Policy during the Interwar Period, C.B. Navari and A. Bosco (eds.) (London, Lothian, 1994).
4. Toynbee dashed off many short articles, all listed in the Morton bibliography. Works longer that ten pages, besides the Survey and the Study, and with relevance for his theory of international relations are as follows: (1915) Nationality and the War (London: Dent).
5. The New Europe; Some Essays in Reconstruction (London: Dent).
6. (1920) The League in the East (London: British Periodicals Ltd).
7. (1922) The Western Question in Greece and Turkey: A Study in the Contact of Civilizations (London: Constable).
8. (1924) ‘The non-Arab Territories of the Ottoman Empire since the Armistice of the 30th October, 1918’, in H. Temperley (ed.), A History of the Peace Conference of Paris, vol. 6 (London: Oxford University Press).
9. (1925) ‘Self-determination’, Quarterly Review, 244, April, p. 484.
10. (1926) Turkey, with K. Kirkwood (London: Benn).
11. (1928) The Conduct of British Empire Foreign Relations since the Peace Settlement (London: Oxford University Press).
12. (1929) ‘The Modernisation of the Middle East’, Journal of the RIIA, 8, July, p. 4.
13. (1930) Economics and Politics in International Life (Nottingham, University College: Montague Burton Foundation Lectures).
14. World Order or Downfall? Six Broadcast Talks (London: BBC).
15. (1931) ‘Historical Parallels to Current International Problems’, International Affairs 10, July, p. 4.
16. ‘The Trend of International Affairs since the War’, International Affairs 10, November, p. 6.
17. (1932) Britain and the Modern World Order (London: BBC).
18. ‘The Disintegration of the Modern World Order’, in J. Bakeless (ed.), Report of the Round Tables and General Conferences at the Twelfth Session (New Haven, CT: Yale University for the Institute of Politics).
19. (1933) ‘A British View of British Foreign Policy’, Yale Review, 23, September, p. 1.
20. (1935) ‘What Was Done’, in Lord Ridell et al., The Treaty of Versailles and After (London: Allen and Unwin).
21. (1936) ‘Peaceful Change or War?’ International Affairs, 15, January-February, p. 1.
22. (1937) ‘The Lessons of History’, in C. Manning (ed.), Peaceful Change; An International Problem (London: Macmillan).
23. (1938) ‘The Issues in British Foreign Policy’, International Affairs, 17, May-June, p. 3.
24. (1939) ‘After Munich: The World Outlook’, International Affairs, 18, January-February, p. 1.
25. (1940) Christianity and Civilization (Burge Memorial Lecture, London, Student Christian Movement Press).
26. (1946) ‘The Virtue of the Middle Way’, with a reply by Professor Carr, Listener, 36, 14 November, p. 931.
27. (1947) ‘Churches and Civilizations’, Yale Review, 37, September, p. 1.
28. ‘The Meaning of History for the Soul’, Christianity and Crisis, 7, 23 June, p. 11.
29. (1948) Civilization on Trial (London and New York: Oxford University Press).
30. (1949) ‘Can we Know the Pattern of the Past?’, in P. Gieyl, A. Toynbee and B. Sorokin, The Pattern of the Past (Boston, MA: Beacon Press).
31. The Prospects of Western Civilization (New York: Columbia University).
32. ‘Poetical Truth and Scientific Truth’, International Journal of Psycho-analysis, 30: 3.
33. (1950) War and Civilization, selections by A.V Fowler (New York: Oxford University Press).
34. (1951) ‘The Next Stage in World Politics?’, in H. and M. Sprout (eds.), Foundations of National Power, 2nd edn. (New York: Van Nostrand).
35. (1953) The World and the West (1952 Reith Lectures, London: Oxford University Press).
36. ‘The Christian Understanding of History’, in D. Mackinnon (ed.), Christian Faith and Communist Faith (London: Macmillan)
37. (1954) ‘The Idea of Europe and the Unity of Europe’, in European Round Table Discussion, Rome, 13-16 October 1953 (Strasbourg: Council of Europe).
38. (1956) An Historian's Approach to Religion (The Gifford Lectures, London: Oxford University Press).
39. (1957) Democracy in the Atomic Age (Melbourne: Oxford University Press).
40. (1957) Christianity among the Religions of the World (New York: Scribner).
41. (1960) One World and India (New Delhi: Orient Longmans, for the Indian Council for Cultural Relations).
42. ‘Democratic Control in a Totalitarian Age’, Marine Corps Gazette, 44: 2, February.
43. ‘The Higher Religions’ Unexhausted Mission’, in S. Yamaguchi (ed.), Buddhism and Culture (Kyoto: Nakano Press).
44. ‘Zionism and Jewish Destiny’, in A. Taylor and R. Tetlie (eds.), Palestine: A Search for Truth (Washington: Public Affairs Press).
45. (1962) America and the World Revolution, and other lectures (New York: Oxford University Press).
46. The Economy of the Western Hemisphere (Weatherhead Foundation lectures, London: Oxford University Press).
47. The Present-Day Experiment in Civilization (Beatty Memorial Lectures, London: Oxford University Press).
48. The Toynbee Lectures on the Middle East and Problems of Underdeveloped Countries (Lectures 1-3, Cairo: National Publications House Press). Importance of the Arab World (Lectures 4-7, Cairo: National Publications House Press).
49. ‘Change in a Disarmed World’, in A. Larsen (ed.), A Warless World (New York: McGraw-Hill).
50. (1963) ‘The Menace of Overpopulation’, in F. Osborn (ed.), Our Crowded Planet (London: Allen and Unwin).
51. ‘Men and Hunger: the Perspective of History’, in World Food Congress, Washington, DC, 1963. Report: volume 2, Major Addresses and Speeches (Rome: FAO).
52. (1964) ‘Britain and the Arabs: the need for a new start’, International Affairs, 40: 4, October.
53. ‘Towards One World by Peaceful Change’, in The Emerging World: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Volume (New York: Asian Publishing House).
54. (1965) Four Lectures Given by Professor Arnold Toynbee in UAR (Cairo: National Publications House for the UAR).
55. ‘The Place of Liberal Trade in the Policies of the West’, in Proceedings of the European-American Symposium on Agricultural Trade, Amsterdam, 1963 (Amsterdam: FAO).
56. ‘The Terms of Coexistence: Mutual Interest and Mutual Trust’, in E. Reed (ed.), International Convocation on the Requirements of Peace (New York: Pocket Books).
57. (1966) Change and Habit: The Challenge of Our Time (London: Oxford University Press).
58. (1967) ‘Peace, Empire and World Government’, Saturday Review, 29 April, reprinted as ‘Anarchy by Treaty, 1648-1967’, in F. Israel (ed.), Major Peace Treaties of Modern History (New York: Chelsea House and McGraw-Hill).
59. ‘Looking Back Fifty Years’, in J. Degras (ed.), The Impact of the Russian Revolution, 1917-1967 (London: Oxford University Press).
60. A Complete Transcript of National Educational Television's Conversations with Arnold Toynbee (New York: National Educational Television).
61. (1968) ‘Indivisibility and Unpredictability of Human Affairs’, in P. Kuntz (ed.), The Concept of Order (Seattle: University of Washington Press).
62. (1969) Experiences (London: Oxford University Press).
63. (1970) Cities on the Move (London: Oxford University Press).
64. ‘History's Challenge to Human Nature’, in C. Brooks (ed.), The Changing World and Man; the Cultural and Social Environment (Baltimore: Garamond).
65. ‘Was Britain's Abdication Folly?’, Round Table, 60, p. 238, April (reviewing Kedourie's The Chatham House Version).
66. ‘Revolutionary Change’, in Great Ideas Today, 1970 (Chicago: William Benton for Encyclopaedia Britannica).
67. (1971) Surviving the Future, with K. Wakaisumi (London: Oxford University Press).
68. ‘War in Our Time’, in A. Lepawsky, B. Albert and H. Lasswell (eds.), The Search for World Order: Studies by Students and Colleagues of Quincy Wright (New York: Appleton-Century).
69. (1972) ‘The Religious Background to the Present Environmental Crisis’, International Journal of Environmental Studies, 3: 2, May.
70. ‘Technical Advance and the Morality of Power’, in G. Urban and M. Glenny (eds.), Can We Survive Our Future? (London: Bodley Head).
71. ‘The Genesis of Pollution’, Horizon, 15: 3, Summer.
72. (1974) Toynbee on Toynbee: A Conversation between Arnold J. Toynbee and G.R. Urban (New York: Oxford University Press).
73. ‘The Ottoman Empire's Place in World History’, in K. Karpat (ed.), The Ottoman State and its Place in World History (Leiden: Brill).
74. (1976) Mankind and Mother Earth (New York and London: Oxford University Press).
75. The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue: Man Himself Must Choose, with D. Ikeda (Tokyo: Kodansa).
76. (1986) An Historian's Conscience: The Correspondence of Arnold J. Toynbee and Columba Cary-Elwes, Monk of Ampleforth, C.B. Peper (ed.) (Boston: Beacon Press).