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The Historian Banished: Karl Lamprecht in Imperial Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Georg G. Iggers
Affiliation:
State University of New York Buffalo

Abstract

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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1994

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