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Introduction to the Study of History

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Introduction to the Study of History
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Publisher: Henry Holt and company
ISBN/ASIN: 1449510906

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This is not a summary of universal history for the use of beginners and readers of scanty leisure. The book is intended, not as a summary of ascertained facts or a system of general ideas on universal history, but as an essay on the method of the historical sciences.

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