Misinformation nation

• Verfasst von: Taylor, Jordan E. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Misinformation nation
• Titelzusatz: foreign news and the politics of truth in revolutionary America
• Verf.angabe: Jordan E. Taylor
• Verlagsort: Baltimore
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: xi, 271 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4449-9
• Schlagwörter: (g)Nordamerika / (g)Kanada / (g)USA / (s)Politik / (s)Presse / (s)Zeitung / (s)Informationsvermittlung / (s)Amerikanische Revolution / (z)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Taylor, Jordan E.: Misinformation Nation. - 1st ed.. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (329 pages)
• RVK-Notation: NO 2350
• K10plus-PPN: 1809987865

Abstract

Introduction. "Any thing but the age of reason" -- Foreign advices and false friends : the mediation revolution in British America -- Taxation with misrepresentation : fears of deception in the Anglo-American imperial crisis -- The lying gazettes : news from London in revolutionary politics -- An ocean of news : independence, commerce, and Atlantic information exchange -- The genius of information : scripting an age of revolutions -- The American constellation : dreams of a continental revolution -- Bentalou's wager : the French Revolution and the birth of American partisanship -- Unmaking the revolutionary Caribbean : race, commerce, and communication in the early republic -- The fruits of revolution : false news and the eclipse of the Federalists -- Epilogue. Tanguy's faithful mirror.

Abstract

"To understand the American Revolution and the early republic, the author argues that we must attend to the descriptive truths--statements about the nature of the world and its politics--that the revolutionaries believed. The author draws on a large set of US and Canadian newspapers to show how Americans used information, and misinformation, from foreign newspapers to frame their political realities"--