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Misinformation Nation : Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (329 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421444505
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Misinformation NationDDC classification:
  • 070.44932
LOC classification:
  • PN4840 .T395 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. "any thing but the age of Reason" -- 1 Foreign Advices and False Friends: The Mediation Revolution in British America -- 2 Taxation with Misrepresentation: Fears of Deception in the Anglo-American Imperial Crisis -- 3 The Lying Gazettes: News from London in Revolutionary Politics -- 4 An Ocean of News: Independence, War, and Atlantic Information Exchange -- 5 The Genius of Information: Scripting an Age of Revolutions -- 6 The American Constellation: Dreams of a Continental Revolution -- 7 Bentalou's Wager: The French Revolution and the Birth of American Partisanship -- 8 Unmaking the Revolutionary Caribbean: Race, Commerce, and Communication in the Early Republic -- 9 The Fruits of Revolution: False News and the Eclipse of the Federalists -- Epilogue. Tanguy's Faithful Mirror -- Appendix. A Note on Data Sources -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: In addition to making a striking and original argument about the founding of the United States, Misinformation Nation will be a valuable prehistory to our current political moment.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. "any thing but the age of Reason" -- 1 Foreign Advices and False Friends: The Mediation Revolution in British America -- 2 Taxation with Misrepresentation: Fears of Deception in the Anglo-American Imperial Crisis -- 3 The Lying Gazettes: News from London in Revolutionary Politics -- 4 An Ocean of News: Independence, War, and Atlantic Information Exchange -- 5 The Genius of Information: Scripting an Age of Revolutions -- 6 The American Constellation: Dreams of a Continental Revolution -- 7 Bentalou's Wager: The French Revolution and the Birth of American Partisanship -- 8 Unmaking the Revolutionary Caribbean: Race, Commerce, and Communication in the Early Republic -- 9 The Fruits of Revolution: False News and the Eclipse of the Federalists -- Epilogue. Tanguy's Faithful Mirror -- Appendix. A Note on Data Sources -- Notes -- Index.

In addition to making a striking and original argument about the founding of the United States, Misinformation Nation will be a valuable prehistory to our current political moment.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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