Periodization

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Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. Translated by Keith Tribe. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1895

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Smith, Adam. Lectures on Jurisprudence, edited by R. L. Meek, D. D. Raphael, and P. G. Stein. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978.

Van der Pot, J. H. J. De Periodisiering der Geschiedenis. The Hague: W. P. van Stockum, 1951.