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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.