Politicians and Pamphleteers reveals the importance of print to the English political world of the Civil Wars and Interregnum period. It explores how print prop

The English civil wars radically altered many aspects of mid-seventeenth century life, simultaneously creating a period of intense uncertainty and unheralded op

A history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.

This volume discusses in turn the ideas of six leading thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Holbach, and Condorcet. A

This work examines how, in the months leading up to the French Revolution, both the royal government and its opposition relied heavily upon pamphlets to sway pu