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Paul Slack
336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
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Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent applicatio...
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Paul Slack
336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
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Language: English
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Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent applicatio...