Popular Media And The American Revolution

Author : Janice Hume
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136269417

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Popular Media and the American Revolution by Janice Hume Pdf

The American Revolution—an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins—continues to live on in the public's memory, celebrated each year on July 4 with fireworks and other patriotic displays. But to identify as an American is to connect to a larger national narrative, one that begins in revolution. In Popular Media and the American Revolution, journalism historian Janice Hume examines the ways that generations of Americans have remembered and embraced the Revolution through magazines, newspapers, and digital media. Overall, Popular Media and the American Revolution demonstrates how the story and characters of the Revolution have been adjusted, adapted, and co-opted by popular media over the years, fostering a cultural identity whose founding narrative was sculpted, ultimately, in revolution. Examining press and popular media coverage of the war, wartime anniversaries, and the Founding Fathers (particularly, "uber-American hero" George Washington), Hume provides insights into the way that journalism can and has shaped a culture's evolving, collective memory of its past. Dr. Janice Hume is a professor and head of the Department of Journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is author of Obituaries in American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and co-author of Journalism in a Culture of Grief (Routledge, 2008).

Author : Solomon Lutnick
Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037982282

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The American Revolution and the British Press, 1775-1783 by Solomon Lutnick Pdf

This book studies the relationship and portrayal of the American Revolution in the British popular media, and how the distant rivals viewed and interpreted the Revolution.

Author : Todd Andrlik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American newspapers
ISBN : 1402269676

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Reporting the Revolutionary War by Todd Andrlik Pdf

Presents a collection of primary source newspaper articles and correspondence reporting the events of the Revolution, containing both American and British eyewitness accounts and commentary and analysis from thirty-seven historians.

Author : Robert G. Parkinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626925

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The Common Cause by Robert G. Parkinson Pdf

When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.

Author : Patricia Bradley
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496800671

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Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution by Patricia Bradley Pdf

Under the leadership of Samuel Adams, patriot propagandists deliberately and conscientiously kept the issue of slavery off the agenda as goals for freedom were set for the American Revolution. By comparing coverage in the publications of the patriot press with those of the moderate colonial press, this book finds that the patriots avoided, misinterpreted, or distorted news reports on blacks and slaves, even in the face of a vigorous antislavery movement. The Boston Gazette, the most important newspaper of the Revolution, was chief among the periodicals that dodged or excluded abolition. The author of this study shows that The Gazette misled its readers about the notable Somerset decision that led to abolition in Great Britain. She notes also that The Gazette excluded anti-slavery essays, even from patriots who supported abolition. No petitions written by Boston slaves were published, nor were any writings by the black poet Phillis Wheatley. The Gazette also manipulated the racial identity of Crispus Attucks, the first casualty in the Revolution. When using the word slavery, The Gazette took care to focus it not upon abolition but upon Great Britain's enslavement of its American colonies. Since propaganda on behalf of the Revolution reached a high level of sophistication, and since Boston can be considered the foundry of Revolutionary propaganda, the author writes that the omission of abolition from its agenda cannot be considered as accidental but as intentional. By the time the Revolution began, white attitudes toward blacks were firmly fixed, and these persisted long after American independence had been achieved. In Boston, notions of virtue and vigilance were shown to be negatively embodied in black colonists. These devil's imps were long represented in blackface in Boston's annual Pope Day parade. Although the leaders of the Revolution did not articulate a national vision on abolition, the colonial anti-slavery movement was able to achieve a degree of success, but only in drives through the individual colonies.

Author : Bernard Bailyn,John B. Hench
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000016081965

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The Press & the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn,John B. Hench Pdf

An examination of how wartime rhetoric in World War I influenced the home front fiction of four British women writers -- Violet Hunt, Rose Macaulay, Stella Benson, and Rebecca West.

Author : William B. Warner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226061405

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Protocols of Liberty by William B. Warner Pdf

The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred “in the minds and hearts of the people” before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication at the center of this intellectual revolution, Protocols of Liberty shows how American patriots—the Whigs—used new forms of communication to challenge British authority before any shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. To understand the triumph of the Whigs over the Brit-friendly Tories, William B. Warner argues that it is essential to understand the communication systems that shaped pre-Revolution events in the background. He explains the shift in power by tracing the invention of a new political agency, the Committee of Correspondence; the development of a new genre for political expression, the popular declaration; and the emergence of networks for collective political action, with the Continental Congress at its center. From the establishment of town meetings to the creation of a new postal system and, finally, the Declaration of Independence, Protocols of Liberty reveals that communication innovations contributed decisively to nation-building and continued to be key tools in later American political movements, like abolition and women’s suffrage, to oppose local custom and state law.

Author : Eliga H. Gould
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899878

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The Persistence of Empire by Eliga H. Gould Pdf

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America. Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary, "armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel. Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Robert W. McChesney,John Nichols
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781568587004

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The Death and Life of American Journalism by Robert W. McChesney,John Nichols Pdf

Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation's leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism and saving democracy, one that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation.

Author : Odai Johnson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609384944

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London in a Box by Odai Johnson Pdf

2017 Theatre Library Association Freedley Award Finalist In this remarkable feat of historical research, Odai Johnson pieces together the surviving fragments of the story of the first professional theatre troupe based in the British North American colonies. In doing so, he tells the story of how colonial elites came to decide they would no longer style themselves British gentlemen, but instead American citizens. London in a Box chronicles the enterprise of David Douglass, founder and manager of the American Theatre, from the 1750s to the climactic 1770s. How he built this network of patrons and theatres and how it all went up in flames as the revolution began is the subject of this witty history. A treat for anyone interested in the world of the American Revolution and an important study for historians of the period.

Author : David K. Allison,Larrie D. Ferreiro
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588346339

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The American Revolution by David K. Allison,Larrie D. Ferreiro Pdf

A lavishly illustrated essay collection that looks through a global lens at the American Revolution and re-positions it as the real 1st world war “Every American should read this marvelous book.” —Douglas Brinkley, author of Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America From acts of resistance like the Boston Tea Party to the "shot heard 'round the world," the American Revolutionary War stands as a symbol of freedom and democracy the world over for many people. But contrary to popular opinion, this was not just a simple battle for independence in which the American colonists waged a "David versus Goliath" fight to overthrow their British rulers. In over a dozen incisive pieces from leading historians, the American struggle for liberty and independence re-emerges instead as a part of larger skirmishes between Britain and Europe’s global superpowers—Spain, France, and the Dutch Republic. Amid these ongoing conflicts, Britain's focus was often pulled away from the war in America as it fought to preserve its more lucrative colonial interests in the Caribbean and India. With fascinating sidebars throughout and over 110 full-color images featuring military portraiture, historical documents, plus campaign and territorial maps, this fuller picture of one of the first global struggles for power offers a completely new understanding of the American Revolution.

Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Monarchy
ISBN : BSB:BSB11430335

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Common Sense by Thomas Paine Pdf

Author : Robert J. Allison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190225063

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The American Revolution by Robert J. Allison Pdf

Original edition has subtitle: a concise history.

Author : Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780813184845

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Media And Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin Pdf

As television screens across America showed Chinese students blocking government tanks in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and missiles searching their targets in Baghdad, the connection between media and revolution seemed more significant than ever. In this book, thirteen prominent scholars examine the role of the communication media in revolutionary crises—from the Puritan Revolution of the 1640s to the upheaval in the former Czechoslovakia. Their central question: Do the media in fact have a real influence on the unfolding of revolutionary crises? On this question, the contributors diverge, some arguing that the press does not bring about revolution but is part of the revolutionary process, others downplaying the role of the media. Essays focus on areas as diverse as pamphlet literature, newspapers, political cartoons, and the modern electronic media. The authors' wide-ranging views form a balanced and perceptive examination of the impact of the media on the making of history.

Author : Annabelle Sreberny,Ali Mohammadi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816622167

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Small Media, Big Revolution by Annabelle Sreberny,Ali Mohammadi Pdf

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