Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
- ISBN-10
- 0521847486
- ISBN-13
- 9780521847483
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 293
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-04-07
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- David Colclough
Description
Attending to the importance of context and decorum, this major contribution to Ideas in Context recovers a tradition of free speech that has been obscured in studies of the evolution of universal rights."--BOOK JACKET.
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