John Hammond and the Explosion of Print in 1641: Commercial and Political Opportunities
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Braddick, Michael J.
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January 29, 2024
Abstract
One of the great values of Thomason’s collection of civil war tracts and newsbooks is the opportunity that it affords for analysing the nature of the print trade during a key phase of the so-called ‘print revolution’. Given the so-called ‘explosion’ of cheap print that accompanied the descent into civil war, and the vital role that print played in the political and religious turmoil of the revolutionary decades, it is vital to explore the role that stationers played, and to reflect upon their identities, not least in terms of the relationship between commercial motives and ideological imperatives. This chapter reconstructs and analyses the imprint of one such stationer, John Hammond, and explores his activity as both a commercial and a political actor. As such, it addresses the vital but vexed issue of the relationship between profit and politics in the world of early modern publishing.
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Electronic British Library Journal
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2023
Article number
4
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British Library
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London, UK
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1478-0259
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March 3, 2023
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Author note: Michael J. Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, and the author of five books and numerous essays on early modern British history. These include: Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England (1994); The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1714 (1996); State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1550-1700 (2000); God’s Fury, England’s Fire (2008); The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution (2018); and A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done (2021). His edited collections include: Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society (with John Walter, 2001); The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (with David Armitage, 2002); The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland (with David L. Smith, 2011); The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution (2015); Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland (with Phil Withington, 2017); Suffering and Happiness in England, 1500-1850 (with Joanna Innes, 2017).
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