The World and the West Author:Arnold J. Toynbee Arnold Toynbee once more brings his phenomenal knowledge and grasp of the historic process to bear on the world and on ourselves. But it is a divided world he sees -- the infinitely larger and more populous world of Russia and India, the Near and the Far East, in collision with ourselves, the West. — Striding with giant steps around the glo... more »be, then back through the centuries, he invites us to look with impartial eyes at what this world has experienced in its contact with the West during the last five hundred years. And the conclusions he arrives at make such startling and disturbing reading that even the most complacent among us will be rudely awakened. For the world's experience at our hands has been by no means as salutaryas our wishful thinking would have us believe.« less