DAVID F. LINDENFELD is professor of history at Louisiana State University and the author of
The Transformation of Positivism: Alexius Meinong and European Thought, 1880-1920.

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Lindenfeld, David F.

The practical imagination : the German sciences of state in the
nineteenth century / David F. Lindenfeld.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-226-48241-3 (alk. paper).--ISBN 0-226-48242-1 "pbk.:
alk. paper)

1. Social sciences-- Germany--History--19th century. 2. Public
administration--Germany--History--19th century. 3. Policy sciences--
History--19th century. 4. Germany--Intellectual life--19th
century. I. Title.

H53.G4L56 1997
320.943--dc20 96-43699
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