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From the point of view of our discussion, the book as a response to political and literary circumstances, its origin belongs to the autumn and winter of 1678-80, exactly a decade earlier than it is traditionally supposed to have been written. Two Treatises is an Exclusion Tract, not a Revolution Pamphlet.

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Peter Laslett

Peter Laslett

Born: December 18, 1915
Died: November 8, 2001 (aged 85)
Bio: Peter Laslett was an English historian.
Known for:
  1. The World We Have Lost (1965)
  2. A fresh map of life (1989)
  3. Household and family in past time (1972)
  4. Debating Deliberative Democracy

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