List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Print for Free: Unsolicited Literature in Comparative Perspective

James Raven

A Free Transmission of Knowledge: The Literary Gifts and Reception of an Eighteenth-Century Scholar

Anna Giulia Cavagna

Free Flattery or Servile Tribute? Oxford and Cambridge Commemorative Poetry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

David Money

`The Abolition Blunderbuss': Free Publishing and British Abolition Propaganda, 1780--1838

Marcus Wood

Free for All: Broadsides on the Streets of New Orleans, 1764--1900

Florence M. Jumonville

The Nineteenth-Century Bible Society and 'The Evil of Gratuitous Distribution'

Leslie Howsam

Sent to the Wilderness: Mission Literature in Colonial America

James Raven

Between Text and Reader: The Experience of Christian Missionaries in Bengal, 1800--50

Anindita Ghosh

Limits to Propaganda: Soviet Power and the Peasant Reader in the 1920s

Vadim V. Volkov

Air-Borne Culture: Propaganda Leaflets over Occupied France in the Second World War

Valerie Holman

Mau Mau's War of Words: The Battle of the Pamphlets

Joanna Lewis

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