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List of illustrations; List of figures; Preface; Notes on conventions;Prologue: changing experiences, 1588, 1642, 1688; 1. What is a pamphlet?; 2.'How loudely they cry': Marprelate, purity and paper bullets; 3. 'Stitchers,Binders, Stationers, Hawkers': printing practices and the book trade; 4. 'Amongrel race of Mercuries lately sprung up': the business of news, c.1580-1660; 5. 'From words to blowes': Scottish origins of the explosion ofprint, 1637-42; 6. 'This bookish partiall formall fierce factious animositousage': printing revolutions, 1641-60; 7. 'Speaking abroad': gender, femaleauthorship and pamphleteering; 8. 'A Bog of Plots, Sham-plots, Subordinationsand Perjuries': pamphlets and polemic in the Restoration; Epilogue; Index ofnames and titles; General index.