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1 Questa relazione è stata presentata alla sessione inaugurale del XX Congresso della Inter-
national Commission of Historical Sciences, tenutasi a Sydney, Australia, il 3 luglio 2005, con la
presidenza del prof. Jürgen Kocka.
2 Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah. An Introduction to History , trad. ing. Franz Rosenthal,
3 voll., Princeton 1967, 1, pp. 6-14.