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The European Legacy
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Civilizations in European and World History: A Reappraisal of the Ideas of Arnold Toynbee, Fernand Braudel and Marshall Hodgson

Pages 341-352 | Published online: 01 Jul 2010

References

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  • Toynbee , Arnold . 1969 . Experiences , 109 London : Oxford University Press . Toynbee listed Gibbon along with the Earl of Clarendon, Edward A. Freeman, J. B. Bury and Theodore Mommsen as the chief intellectual influences on his historical thinking
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