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How can you tell who was influencing whom? Most of the time these influences are tenuous and speculative.
One way to find reliable influences is in another field: how scientists (and their works) are influenced by other scientists. At least in theory, the references section of a scientific work should list all influences. Here is reliable data for possible "influences"-tags, but way to much of it, so even here a representation of influences would be near-useless. But it's a fascinating idea, to be sure.
BTW: Going back to the history-influences-idea: of course there are cyclic influences: Bush influences the Taliban, the Taliban influence Bush. Most interesting things go in these transaction cycles ...
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