basically what I'm trying to do is locate the earliest instances of particular terms, did librarians have some arcane method to do this before computers
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Are you looking for tech terms? There’s some etymology for geek terms in the MIT Jargon File, IIRC, but it’s a small set of terms
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no, international relations
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The business of international relations, political science and economics is the production of intellectual justifications.
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There is no one following citation chains all the way to prune them. Academia is filled with completely fictional / groundless lineages.
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Political science in particular is very bad in general. Lots of citation trains leading nowhere.
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you mentioned google books search earlier, but were you looking at https://books.google.com/ngrams ?
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