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DO BOOKS MAKE REVOLUTIONS? REVISITED

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2012

E. C. SPARY
E. C. SPARY
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CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
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The Historical Journal , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 239 - 248
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2 For a summary of the discussion over this issue, see Bowsma, William J., ‘Intellectual history in the 1980s: from history of ideas to history of meaning’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 12 (1981), pp. 279–90CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Toews, John E., ‘Review: intellectual history after the linguistic turn: the autonomy of meaning and the irreducibility of experience’, American Historical Review, 92 (1987), pp. 879–907CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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