The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture / Brendan Dooley.
The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture / Brendan Dooley.
The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture / Brendan Dooley.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1999.
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N070.9/87
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English
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Physical content
viii, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. News Unfit to Print -- 2. Politics' New Clothes -- 3. Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat -- 4. Veritas Filia Temporis.
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Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1999.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
"Do new information technologies always produce progress and enlightenment? No, at least not according to observers in seventeenth-century Europe. As Brendan Dooley demonstrates in The Social History of Skepticism, the transformation of information about present and past politics into a saleable product, whether in the form of commissioned historie...
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The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture / Brendan Dooley.
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The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 117th ser., 2.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-203) and index.
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c1999.
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N070.9/87
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74VvgKjO8ZlM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvgKjO8ZlM
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080186142X :
080186142X (alk. paper)
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070.9
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991012233319702626
