Whether you agree with Toynbee or not (many later historians, like Hugh Trevor-Roper, dismissed him as unscientific), his methodology forces you to think critically about how history is constructed. The allows students to trace his arguments, examine his footnotes (which are often as fascinating as the main text), and develop their own counter-arguments.
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: Contacts between Civilizations in Time (Renaissances), Law and Freedom in History, and the Prospects of Western Civilization. Whether you agree with Toynbee or not (many