Editing A Study of History (section)

== Titles of the volumes ==
The 12-volume work contains more than 3 million words and about 7,000 pages, plus 412 pages of indices.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brander |first=Bruce G. |author-link=Bruce G. Brander |title=Staring into Chaos |publisher=Spence Publishing Company |location=Dallas, Texas |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/staringintochaos00bran/page/168 168] |url=https://archive.org/details/staringintochaos00bran/page/168 |isbn=978-0-9653208-5-6 |url-access=registration }}</ref>
* Publication of ''A Study of History''<ref>The Table of Contents for all the volumes is presented at this website [http://nobsword.blogspot.com/1993_10_17_nobsword_archive.html ''A Study of History''] some volumes being given in greater detail than others. Selected portions of the text are also provided, as keyed to the Table of Contents.</ref>
** Vol I: ''Introduction: The Geneses of Civilizations'', part one ([[Oxford University Press]], 1934)
** Vol II: ''The Geneses of Civilizations'', part two (Oxford University Press, 1934)
** Vol III: ''The Growths of Civilizations'' (Oxford University Press, 1934)
** Vol IV: ''The Breakdowns of Civilizations'' (Oxford University Press, 1939)
** Vol V: ''The Disintegrations of Civilizations'', part one (Oxford University Press, 1939)
** Vol VI: ''The Disintegrations of Civilizations'', part two (Oxford University Press, 1939)
** Vol VII: ''Universal States; Universal Churches'' (Oxford University Press, 1954) [as two volumes in paperback]
** Vol VIII: ''Heroic Ages; Contacts between Civilizations in Space (Encounters between Contemporaries)'' (Oxford University Press, 1954)
** Vol IX: ''Contacts between Civilizations in Time (Renaissances); Law and Freedom in History; The Prospects of the Western Civilization'' (Oxford University Press, 1954)
** Vol X: ''The Inspirations of Historians; A Note on Chronology'' (Oxford University Press, 1954)
** Vol XI: ''Historical Atlas and Gazetteer'' (Oxford University Press, 1959)
** Vol XII: ''Reconsiderations'' (Oxford University Press, 1961)
* Abridgements by [[D. C. Somervell]]:
** ''A Study of History: Abridgement of Vols I–VI'', with a preface by Toynbee (Oxford University Press, 1946)<ref>This first abridgement by Somervell has been translated into Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Swedish, and Urdu. William H. McNeill, ''Arnold J. Toynbee. A life'' (Oxford University, 1989), text at 285, note 5 [337].</ref>
** ''A Study of History: Abridgement of Vols VII–X'' (Oxford University Press, 1957)
** ''A Study of History: Abridgement of Vols I–X in One Volume'', with new preface by Toynbee & new tables (Oxford Univ. Press, 1960)
* Abridgement by the author and [[Jane Caplan]]:
** ''A Study of History: The Abridged One-Volume Edition'', with new foreword by Toynbee & a new chapter (Oxford University Press and Thames & Hudson, 1972)