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(Art direction and design: Jean-Dominique Lavoix-Carli)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published 9 October 2023, under the title “How to Create New Civilizations (1)? Challenges and Pressures<\/em>“. Significantly revised and updated for our Featured Insight series.<\/em>
Time to read: 13 to 19 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first decades of the 21st century present human societies with many challenges. At times, it appears our very civilizations are at stake. Can we create new better-adapted civilizations? What are the alternatives? What can we learn from the works that have examined the history of civilisations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between the two world wars of the 20th century, British historian Arnold Toynbee wrote such a masterful history of civilizations in 12 volumes, published in 1934 and 1939 for the first 6 volumes, then between 1954 and 1961 for the last ones: Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History<\/em>, Oxford University Press, 1934 [tomes 1-3], 1939 [tomes 4-6], 1954 [tomes 7-10], 1959 [tome 11], 1961 [tome 12]. In 1946, D. C. Somervell, also a British historian, published an abridged version of the first 6 volumes (the second part was published in 1957). This is the work we shall use here: D. C. Somervell,\u00a0A Study of History: Abridgement of Vols I-VI<\/em>, with a preface by Toynbee, Oxford University Press 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n