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The Origins of a Free Press in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia [electronic resource] : Creating a Culture of Political Dissent
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mellen, Roger P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of the press--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Press--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Printing--Political aspects--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Press--History--18th century--Virginia.
- Press.
- Printing--Political aspects--History--18th century--Virginia.
- Printing.
- Freedom of the press--History--18th century--Virginia.
- Freedom of the press.
- Local Subjects:
- Freedom of the press--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Press--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Printing--Political aspects--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary study examines the origins of the freedom of the press in Colonial Virginia tracing the development of print culture. It demonstrates how changes in the dominant medium of communication were an important enabler of the cultural development that allowed for the growth of political dissent. Virginia's traditional culture of deference was gradually replaced by a "culture of dissidence" and from that emerged the first constitutional right for press freedom in the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Forward; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1, Prologue: Culture of Deference; Chapter 2, Print Culture in the Early Chesapeake Region; Chapter 3, Chesapeake Newspapers and Expanding Civic Discourse, 1728-1764; Chapter 4, The Colonial Chesapeake Almanac: Revolutionary "Agent of Change"; Chapter 5, Women, Print, and Discourse; Chapter 6, The Stamp Act; Chapter 7, Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of Newspaper Competition; Chapter 8, Liberty of the Press; Chapter 9, Epilogue; Appendix: Virginia Printer's Timeline; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-1112-7
- OCLC:
- 796384583
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