News, history and the construction of the present in early modern England

The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 80-118

  Woolf, Daniel ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203991855-7     Document Type: Chapter

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