_The History of Mankind _is in six volumes.
I. Prehistory and The Beginnings of Civilization.
IV. The World A.D. 1300 to the End of the Eighteenth Century.
VI. The Twentieth Century. All but the first volume of the _History_ deal with the epoch during which civilization has played a fateful role in world affairs.
Professor Arnold J. Toynbee's ten volume _Study of History_ is concerned chiefly with the rise and decline of those civilizations which have left a noteworthy historical record. His emphasis is geographical and political rather than cultural and social. The same thing may be said of other histories of civilization. They stress personalities, nations and empires.
There are few books which approach the study of civilization as a stage or level of human culture. Among them are:
Abbott, Wilbur C, _The Expansion of Europe_, N.Y.: Holt, 1918. 2 vols.
Adams, Brooks, _The Law of Civilization and Decay_, N.Y.: Knopf, 1943.
Adams, Brooks, _The New Empire_, N.Y.: MacMillian, 1902.
Adams, George B., _Civilization During the Middle Ages_, N.Y.: Scribners, 1914.
Albanes, Ricardo C, _La Civilizacion y el Communismo Marxista_, Habana: Cultural S.A., 1937.
Ashley, Percy W., _Europe from Waterloo to Sarajero_, N.Y.: Knopf, 1926.
Baikie, James, _The Life of the Ancient East_, N.Y.: MacMillan, 1923.
Ballester Escalas, Rafael, _Historia de la Civilizaciones_, Barcelona: Gasso, 1961.
Balmes, Jaime Luciano, _La Civilizacion_, Barcelona: Lopez Lansas, 1922.
Barnes, Harry E., _A Social History of the Western World_, N.Y.: Appleton, 1921.
----, _A Survey of Western Civilization_, N.Y.: Crowall, 1947.
Bell, Clive, _Civilization, an Essay_, London: Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Blackmar, Frank W., _History of Human Society_, N.Y.: Scribners, 1926.
Bornet-Perrier, Paul, _L'Unité Humaine_, Paris: Alcan, 1931.
Bose, Pramatha, _Epochs of Civilization_, Calcutta: Newman, 1913.
Breasted, James H., _A History of Egypt_, London: Hodder and Stoughten, 1921.
Brier, Royce, _Western World_, Garden City: Doubleday, 1946.
Briere, Yves de la, _Grands Imperialismes Contemporaires_, Anvers: Association des Licencées de St. Ignace, 1925.
Brodeur, Arthur G., _The Pageant of Civilization_, N.Y.: McBride, 1931.
Brown, Lawrence R., _The Might of the West_, NY.: Obolensky, 1963.