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The Correspondence: Volume II: 1660-1679 (Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes , Vol 2)
Thomas Hobbes

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important figures in the history of European thought. Although interest in his life and work has grown enormously in recent years, this is the first complete edition of his correspondence. The texts of the letters are richly supplemented with explanatory notes and full biographical and bibliographical information. This landmark publication sheds new light on the intellectual life of a major thinker.

Der grosse kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg: Theil 2. 1660 bis 1679
Martin Philippson

Adamant Media Corporation, 2005

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by Siegfried Cronbach, Berlin.

Politics, Religion and Society in England, 1679-1742
Geoffrey Holmes

Hambledon & London, 2003

Geoffrey Holmes's work on English history between the Exclusion Crisis and the fall of Walpole is fundamental to the understanding of the period. These essays complement rather than repeat his other work and make a well-rounded and characteristically stylish collection.

The Tale of Old Mortality (Penguin Classics)

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Walter Scott

Penguin Classics, 2000

An Outstanding Work of Historical Fiction
Scott's "Old Mortality" is set amidst political and religious turmoil in late 17th century Scotland. Covenanters, in that time, a sect of Presbyterians, engaged government forces of both Scotland and Britain in an effort to secure their religious freedoms. In the middle of this action is Henry Morton, a moderate youth, drawn out of his secure life by a chance encounter, and into a ten-year ...

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