To understand the American Revolution and the early republic, the author argues that we must attend to the descriptive truths--statements about the nature of the world and its politics--that the revolutionaries believed. The author draws on a large set of US and Canadian newspapers to show how Americans used information, and misinformation, from foreign newspapers to frame their political realities--
- | Author: Jordan E. Taylor
- | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 11, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1421444496
- | ISBN-13: 9781421444499