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‘[N]ational greatness depends chiefly upon two types of great men; those who make national history, and those who interpret it’. A slight man, Canadian historian and college headmaster George R. Parkin , spoke these grand words in memory of John R. Seeley at Cambridge in 1895.
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Behm, A. (2018). Historical Racism Between Page and Practice, 1880–1900. In: Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54850-4_3
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