4478634
9780521023344
"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 ', published 0018 under ISBN 9780521023344 and ISBN 0521023343.
[read more]