Printers and press freedom : the ideology of early American journalism /

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Author / Creator:Smith, Jeffery Alan
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Description:ix, 233 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/851857
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ISBN:0195051440 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 177-223.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1.. Philosophies and Practices
  • I.. The English Experience
  • II.. The Marketplace of Ideas Concept
  • III.. The Ideals of the Enlightenment
  • Part 2.. Political and Legal Questions
  • IV.. Sovereignty and Seditious Libel
  • V.. Demands, Defenses, and Distinctions
  • Part 3.. The Ideology in Practice: The Case of Franklin and His Partners
  • VI.. The Colonial Journalist: Good Humour'd Unless Provok'd
  • VII.. The Enlightened Printer: Virtue and Vituperation
  • VIII.. The Prerevolutionary Printer: The Ideal of Impartiality
  • IX.. The Revolutionary Journalist: The Court of the Press
  • Conclusion
  • A Note on Sources
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index