History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET June 2023 History (Shift-II)
Who rejected the conventional boundaries between nations and asserted that only civilizations were the proper subject of study?
AGeorge Rude
BRanke
CAugustin Thierry
DArnold Toynbee ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Arnold Toynbee — It was Arnold Toynbee, so the answer is Arnold Toynbee.
Explanation
★It was Arnold Toynbee, so the answer is Arnold Toynbee.
★Arnold Toynbee rejected the conventional boundaries between nations and asserted that only civilizations were the proper subject of study.
★Arnold Toynbee was an English historian.
★He gave the theory of social change.
★He wrote several books such as A Study of History of 1934 and War and Civilization of 1950.
★So the one who asserted that civilizations were the proper subject of study was Arnold Toynbee.
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