Messengers of empire : print and revolution in the Atlantic world /
'Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World' examines how news and information moved across the Atlantic world during the Age of Sail. It provides a ground-breaking look at how the French Revolutionary Wars impacted the development of communication channels, such as t...
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Liverpool :
Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford,
[2023].
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2023:05. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The interconnected Atlantic World
- Interception, corruption, and revolution: the emergence and expansion of the British and French Caribbean postal system
- Mail couriers in the revolutionary Caribbean
- The founding, staffing, and operation of early modern Caribbean print shops
- 'Apply to the printer': colonial printers as nexuses of information
- New World newspapers: the emergence and proliferation of the British and French Caribbean press in the 18th and early 19th-centuries
- Restricting the flow of news: censorship and early newspaper reports of the Haitian Revolution (1791)
- The colonial almanac: instruments of information in the Atlantic world
- Iconography in early modern Caribbean print culture
- Reading Salons, Enlightenment, and rum: the world of the early Caribbean book trade and its booksellers
- Conclusion: communication networks across the Caribbean and wider Atlantic world.