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New book: ‘The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution’

The new open-access monograph “The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution” by David de Boer investigates the rise of the printing press as a powerful weapon against state persecution in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The study takes us back to the news revolution when people first discovered the press as a powerful tool to combat religiously inspired maltreatment, executions, and massacres.

New book: Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediation & the Transformation of Political Culture

“Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediation & the Transformation of Political Culture” examines how the British Empire contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. The study re-evaluates the challenges posed to the Empire by the Glorious Revolution, the Jacobite Rebellion, the American Revolution, and Jacobin threats of the late 18th century.

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