1790s
A01=Ben P. Lafferty
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
American Intelligence Lafferty
American journalism roots
American newspaper circulation
American political history
American print culture 18th century
American print revolution
American studies educators
Author_Ben P. Lafferty
automatic-update
Ben P. Lafferty author
book historians
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBJK
Category=HBLH
Category=HBLL
Category=HBW
Category=JBCT
Category=JFD
Category=JPA
Category=JWLF
Category=NHK
Category=NHWF
Category=NHWR
colonial-era publishing
COP=United States
copying and reprinting practices
cultural historians
cultural life in early newspapers
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
democracy and early newspapers
early American history scholars
early American information age
early American newspapers
early American press
early newspaper editors
early newspaper industry
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Federalism
first newspapers in the U.S.
founding era journalism
history of American journalism
history of communication scholars
history of printing in America
journalism and political culture
journalism before newsrooms
journalism history
journalism in the early republic
Language_English
letters and poems in newspapers
media and democracy
media history United States
media studies academics
New Hampshire
New Hampshire press history
newspaper content in the 1790s
newspaper culture in New Hampshire
newspaper entrepreneurs early U.S.
newspaper expansion 18th century
newspaper history
newspaper publishing 1790s
newspapers and democracy
PA=Available
political communication in the republic
political print culture
political science historians
post-revolutionary media
press and politics 1790s
Price_€20 to €50
print culture researchers
printers and political risk
printers as public figures
printers in early America
PS=Active
public discourse early America
public opinion
reader submissions in newspapers
rise of mass media in America
rural news
small town news
softlaunch
turbulent careers in publishing
US political history
Product details
- ISBN 9781625344618
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 22 Dec 2019
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The rapid expansion of the newspaper business in the first decade of the American republic had crucial consequences for cultural, commercial, and political life in the early United States, as the nation went from having dozens of weekly newspapers to hundreds. Before organized newsrooms and bureaus came on the scene, these fledgling publications were filled with content copied from other newspapers as well as letters, poems, religious tracts, and ribald anecdotes submitted by readers.
Taking up the New Hampshire newspaper industry as its case study, American Intelligence unpacks the ways in which an unprecedented quantity of printed material was gathered, distributed, marketed, and consumed, as well as the strong influence that it had on the shaping of the American political imagination. Ben P. Lafferty also considers the lives of the printers themselves and asks why so many men chose to pursue such a fraught and turbulent profession. This snapshot resonates with the contemporary media-saturated and politically chaotic age.
Taking up the New Hampshire newspaper industry as its case study, American Intelligence unpacks the ways in which an unprecedented quantity of printed material was gathered, distributed, marketed, and consumed, as well as the strong influence that it had on the shaping of the American political imagination. Ben P. Lafferty also considers the lives of the printers themselves and asks why so many men chose to pursue such a fraught and turbulent profession. This snapshot resonates with the contemporary media-saturated and politically chaotic age.
Ben P. Lafferty holds a PhD from the University of London's Institute for the Study of the Americas. He is an independent scholar based in Washington, DC.
