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Richard T. Vann
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Professor of History and Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Senior Editor, History and Theory. Author of The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655–1755 and others.

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Giambattista Vico
World history, branch of history concerned with the study of historical phenomena that transcend national, regional, or cultural boundaries or distinctions between peoples or with the study of history from a global, comparative, or cross-cultural perspective. Although the academic study of world…
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