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‘Real Authentick History’ or What Philosophers of History Can Teach Us*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Jonathan Steinberg
Jonathan Steinberg
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Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 1981 , pp. 453 - 474
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