Defining the History of Ideas.(The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas and New Dictionary of the History of Ideas)(Book review)

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The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas. Ed. Philip P. Wiener. 5 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-1974. Available online at http://etext.lib .virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005. ISBN: 0-684-31377-4 (also in Gale virtual reference library).

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