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Revolutionary networks the business and politics of printing the news, 1763–1789 / Joseph M. Adelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adelman, Joseph M., 1980- author.
- Series:
- Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
- Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing industry--United States--History--18th century.
- Printing industry.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Press coverage..
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Other Title:
- Business and politics of printing the news, 1763–1789
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "During the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a crucial role as a forum for public debate. In Revolutionary Networks, Joseph M. Adelman argues that printers—artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade—used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization. Going into the printing offices of colonial America to explore how these documents were produced, Adelman shows how printers balanced their own political beliefs and interests alongside the commercial interests of their businesses, the customs of the printing trade, and the prevailing mood of their communities. Adelman describes how these laborers repackaged oral and manuscript compositions into printed works through which political news and opinion circulated."-- Title details screen.
- Contents:
- The business and economic world of the late colonial printing trade
- A trade under threat: printers and the stamp act crisis
- The business of protest: printing against empire
- The collision of business and politics: 1774-1775
- Patriots, loyalists, and the perils of wartime printing
- Rebuilding print networks for the new nation
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Adelman, Joseph M., 1980- Revolutionary networks.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2861-X
- OCLC:
- 1105350750
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