The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into its Origin and Growth

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Emphasizing the necessity of adhering with rigid exactness to historical facts, the author presents a scheme of ideas upon which to thread the facts of human development which extends to cover the whole range of civilization in its movement through time.

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World Systems and Global Transformations Globalization and Cultural Identity Socio-political and Technological Issues

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Published in: The American Historical Review

Volume 38, Issue 2, pp. 304-304

DOI: 10.2307/1838300

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