The origins of a free press in pre-revolutionary Virginia
Subtitle: creating a culture of political dissent
By: Roger P. Mellen ; with a foreword by David Waldstreicher.
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773438774
Subjects: Press -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century; Printing -- Political aspects -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century; Freedom of the press -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: culture of deference; title: Print culture in the early Chesapeake Region; title: Chesapeake newspapers and expanding civic discourse, 1728-1764; title: The colonial Chesapeake almanac: revolutionary "agent of change"; title: Women, print, and discourse; title: The Stamp Act; title: Thomas Jefferson and the origins of newspaper competition; title: Liberty of the press; title: George Mason and rights declared; title: Revolution and press freedom; title: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights; title: Epilogue.