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• Tilly , Charles and Tilly , Louise . 1975 . The Rebellious Century Cambridge The great opportunities for comparative/international quantitative history have not yet been explored to the degree they should. Cf. Jarausch, “The International Dimension of Quantitative History,” Social Science History 8 (1984): 128
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