A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN TOLAND
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A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN TOLAND (ebook)

MICHAEL BROWN

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Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
ISBN:
9781317314851
Páginas:
208
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Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
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Si

John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his writings within the controversies that sparked and shaped them.

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