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"Excellent....Bringing the new approach of the history of the book to conventional historiography, Woolf directs attention to the readers rather than the authors and to the performance and reception of historical texts in modern early England.....Combining wide-ranging archival research with imaginative ingenuity, he is able to cast invaluable new light, not only on the ownership of history books, but on how owners 'understood and made use of their contents'...."Woolf, D. R. is the author of 'Reading History in Early Modern England' with ISBN 9780521780469 and ISBN 0521780462.
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