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Edited or translated historical text

What it is

A historical work republished in a modern edited or translated edition.

How to cite it

Cited under r 7.7.1, naming both the original author and whoever edited or translated it.

Example citation

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (JCA Gaskin (ed), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998).

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