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PROPHET OF COMMUNITY. THE ROMANTIC SOCIALISM OF GUSTAV LANDAUER. By Eugene Lunn. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1973. Pp. x, 434. $13.75.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1975

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