Thomas Johnson: the publisher as an agent of Enlightenment.
This article discusses the varied business practices of the eighteenth-century publisher Thomas Johnson. It develops our understanding of the Enlightenment, as experienced by its participants and as a historical phenomenon, by cataloguing Johnson's creation and exploitation of communications and ret...
| Publicado en: | Dutch Crossing Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 34 - 49 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2021
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