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The origins of a free press in prerevolutionary Virginia : creating a culture of political dissent /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mellen, Roger P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Press > Virginia > History > 18th century.
Printing > Political aspects > Virginia > History > 18th century.
Freedom of the press > Virginia > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: culture of deference
  • Print culture in the early Chesapeake Region
  • Chesapeake newspapers and expanding civic discourse, 1728-1764
  • The colonial Chesapeake almanac: revolutionary "agent of change"
  • Women, print, and discourse
  • The Stamp Act
  • Thomas Jefferson and the origins of newspaper competition
  • Liberty of the press
  • Epilogue.