Reading History in Early Modern England
- ISBN-10
- 0521780462
- ISBN-13
- 9780521780469
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- D. R. Woolf
Description
A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.
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