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Author Mellen, Roger P.

Title The origins of a free press in prerevolutionary Virginia : creating a culture of political dissent / Roger P. Mellen ; with a foreword by David Waldstreicher.

Publication Info. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (iii, 320 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-307) and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Press -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
Press.
Virginia.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Printing -- Political aspects -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
Printing -- Political aspects.
Printing.
Freedom of the press -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
Freedom of the press.
Chronological Term 1700 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mellen, Roger P. Origins of a free press in prerevolutionary Virginia. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009 9780773438774 (DLC) 2009033813 (OCoLC)430056926
ISBN 9780773411128 (electronic book)
0773411127 (electronic book)
9780773438774
0773438777