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Maine, Henry. "International Law: Its Origin and Sources." Whewell Lecture. 1887, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 3, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1781, ch. 49.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 3. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 49.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 12.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 12.

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

Melvin Kranzberg

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Kranzberg, Melvin. "Technology and History: Kranzberg's Laws." Technology and Culture, vol. 27, no. 3, July 1986, pp. 544-560.

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Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. Vol. 1, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, ch. 51.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Seeley

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Seeley, John. "Tendency in English History." 1881, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK. Lecture.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 20.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 20.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "John Dryden." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1828.

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Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 22.

Human blunders, however, usually, do more to shape history than human wickedness.

A.J.P. Taylor

The Origins of the Second World War

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Taylor, A. J. P. The Origins of the Second World War. Hamish Hamilton, 1961, ch. 10.

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De Voto, Bernard. The Year of Decision: 1846. Little, Brown and Company, 1943, ch. 17.

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Kennan, George Frost [published as "X"]. "The Sources of Soviet Conduct." Foreign Affairs, July 1947.

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Toynbee, Arnold J. Quoted in A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI, written by D.C. Somervell. Oxford University Press, 1948, vol. 4.

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 8.

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Boorstin, Daniel. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Harper Colophon Books, 1961.

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926, ch. 1.

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Angelico Press, 2021, ch. 1.

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926, ch. 1.

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Angelico Press, 2021, ch. 1.