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

"Fake news" is not new. Just like millions of Americans today, the revolutionaries of the eighteenth century worried that they were entering a "post-truth" era. Their fears, however, were not fixated on social media or clickbait, but rather on peoples' increasing reliance on...

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Autor principal: Taylor, Jordan E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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