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German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke: Letters and Documents, 1910–1977. Edited by Gerhard A. Ritter. Trans. Alex Skinner. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2010. Pp. xii+ 554. Cloth $183.00. ISBN 978-90-04-18404-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2011

Marjorie Lamberti
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Middlebury College

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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 2011

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4 See the pride in this historical tradition in Gilbert, Felix, A European Past: Memoirs, 1905–1945 (New York: Norton, 1988), 70Google Scholar; Holborn, Hajo, “Wilhelm Dilthey and the Critique of Historical Reason,” Journal of the History of Ideas 11, no. 1 (January 1950): 97, 114–15CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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