Must Historians Regress? An Answer to Lee Benson
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عنوان ژورنال: Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0161-5440,1940-1906
DOI: 10.1080/01615440.1986.10594170