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... Europe according to religions - Orthodox , Catholic , Uniate and Protestant - must always be superimposed upon the maps of Europe according to racial stock , language and social pattern , to make intelligible the politics of our period ...
... Europe according to religions - Orthodox , Catholic , Uniate and Protestant - must always be superimposed upon the maps of Europe according to racial stock , language and social pattern , to make intelligible the politics of our period ...
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... Europe as a whole and eastern Europe , where commercial life had always been restricted and where indigenous middle- classes had hardly developed . In Europe west of the Elbe the economic trends of the age worked in favour of the growth ...
... Europe as a whole and eastern Europe , where commercial life had always been restricted and where indigenous middle- classes had hardly developed . In Europe west of the Elbe the economic trends of the age worked in favour of the growth ...
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... Europe catch up with their new opportunities and new responsi- bilities . The dwarfing of Europe , particularly of western Europe , that is the major historical phenomenon of our own generation , could hardly be foreseen when it seemed ...
... Europe catch up with their new opportunities and new responsi- bilities . The dwarfing of Europe , particularly of western Europe , that is the major historical phenomenon of our own generation , could hardly be foreseen when it seemed ...
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