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William Parks – The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century: Penn State Series in the History of the Book

Autor A. Franklin Parks
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2016
William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher's path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While incorporating much new biographical information, the book widens the lens to take in the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic-as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing in England and colonial America in the early to mid-eighteenth century, with the printer as a focal point.After a struggling start in England, William Parks became a critical figure for both Annapolis and Williamsburg. He provided the southern United States with its first newspapers as well as civic leadership, book printing and selling, paper, and even postal services. Despite Jefferson's later dismissal of his Williamsburg newspaper as simply a governmental organ, Parks often pushed the limits of what was expected of a public printer, occasionally getting into trouble and confronting the kind of control and censorship that would eventually make evident the need for press freedoms in the new republic. It has often been asserted that, had Parks not died unexpectedly and relatively young, his reputation would have rivaled that of Franklin as a printer, entrepreneur, and man of affairs.
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ISBN-13: 9780271052120
ISBN-10: 0271052120
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Penn State University
Seria Penn State Series in the History of the Book


Notă biografică

A. Franklin Parks was Professor of English at Frostburg State University.

Cuprins

"Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1Endings and Beginnings 2The Worcestershire Apprentice 3Striking Out on His Own 4All the Encouraging Prospects of Success 5Printing and Publishing in ôThe Age of Clamourö 6ôPrinter to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, and the Provinceö of Maryland 7Economics, Enlightenment, and the Maryland Gazette 8Transforming the Discourse 9Serving Two Masters 10The Williamsburg Print Shop 11Controversy and the Virginia Gazette 12William Parks, Gent. Epilogue Appendix: ParksÆs Family Background Notes Index