Arnold Toynbee
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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 increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these...
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Published in 1917, this volume draws on contemporary published reports and first-hand accounts from both German and Belgian sources to present a damning account of German atrocities conducted against the civilian population of Belgium in the first three months of the war.
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Professor Toynbee's specific narrative begins with the landing of Greek troops at Smyrna in May, 1919. His account is very full and detailed, and is based largely upon personal observation. Toynbee's principal conclusion is that the effect of Western diplomacy and of Western ideas, particularly the conception of nationality, upon the East has been disturbing. It was no less so because the West had never fully intended nor realized the consequences....
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A continuation of Toynbee's German Terror in Belgium, this volume finishes his study of all the spaces Germany invaded in the West. The author draws on recent reports from French and German sources-however this second part contains much less summary and more analysis than that on Belgium.