Toynbee, Arnold

Toynbee, Arnold J. 1931. A Journey to China or Things which are Seen. London Constable. 

In Malaya and British Borneo Chinese ethnie nationalism focussed on China was the only serious political movement until the very last years of the pre-war old order. Arnold Toynbee was profoundly wrong but symptomatic of the times when he declared When I touched at the Straits Settlements on my way out east I realized that British Malaya... 

Bulwer-Lytton directly influenced John Ruskin at Oxford University and established the lineage that leads — through such names as Milner and Rhodes — to the present-day Royal Institute of International Affairs. Ruskin s students included Milner, Rhodes, Albert Grey, and the future director of research for the RIIA, Arnold Toynbee. 

The "case officer" for Britain s Opium War was Aldous Huxley, the grandson of Thomas H. Huxley, a founder of the Rhodes Round Table group and a lifelong collaborator of Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee himself sat on the RIIA council for nearly 50 years, headed the Research Division of British intelligence... 

Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History (New York Oxford University... 

Arnold Toynbee s historical classic followed by two valuable more recent works ... 

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