HOBBES'S PUBLISHER AND THE POLITICAL BUSINESS OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
This article argues for an ideologically neutral understanding of the early Enlightenment, the Enlightenment public, and later Stuart religious politics. It approaches these topics from the perspective of the book trade. Thomas Hobbes's publisher and man of business in the 1670s, William Crooke, set...
| Publicado en: | Historical Journal Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 339 - 365 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jun2016
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