{"product_id":"revolutionary-networks-the-business-and-politics-of-printing-the-news-1763-1789-9781421439907","title":"Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn engrossing and powerful story about the influence of printers, who used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHonorable Mention, St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Bibliographical Society of America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a crucial role as a forum for public debate. In \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Networks\u003c\/i\u003e, Joseph M. Adelman argues that printers--artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade--used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization. Going into the printing offices of colonial America to explore how these documents were produced, Adelman shows how printers balanced their own political beliefs and interests alongside the commercial interests of their businesses, the customs of the printing trade, and the prevailing mood of their communities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdelman describes how these laborers repackaged oral and manuscript compositions into printed works through which political news and opinion circulated. Drawing on a database of 756 printers active during the Revolutionary era, along with a rich collection of archival and printed sources, Adelman surveys printers' editorial strategies. Moving chronologically through the era of the American Revolution and to the war's aftermath, he details the development of the networks of printers and explains how they contributed to the process of creating first a revolution and then the new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy underscoring the important and intertwined roles of commercial and political interests in the development of Revolutionary rhetoric, this book essentially reframes our understanding of the American Revolution. Printers, Adelman argues, played a major role as mediators who determined what rhetoric to amplify and where to circulate it. Offering a unique perspective on the American Revolution and early American print culture, \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Networks\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how these men and women managed political upheaval through a commercial lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph M. Adelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Libra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421439907","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43349367390345,"sku":"9781421439907","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_530ddd89-175a-4e49-856c-ba496128977a.jpg?v=1739261891","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/revolutionary-networks-the-business-and-politics-of-printing-the-news-1763-1789-9781421439907","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}