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1688: The First Modern Revolution. By Steve Pincus. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 647. $40.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2010

Joel Mokyr*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University

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