03976nam 2200529 450 991079598860332120240114000015.09781421444505(electronic bk.)(MiAaPQ)EBC29138929(Au-PeEL)EBL29138929(CKB)24762045800041(OCoLC)1343245621(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110623(EXLCZ)992476204580004120240114d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMisinformation Nation Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America /Jordan E. TaylorFirst edition.Baltimore, Maryland :Johns Hopkins University Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (323 pages)Includes index.Print version: Taylor, Jordan E. Misinformation Nation Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2022 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."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 reading news gathered from foreign newspapers. In Misinformation Nation, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation. News was the lifeblood of early American politics, but newspaper printers had few reliable sources to report on events from abroad. Accounts of battles and beheadings, as well as declarations and constitutions, often arrived alongside contradictory intelligence. Though frequently false, the information that Americans encountered in newspapers, letters, and conversations framed their sense of reality, leading them to respond with protests, boycotts, violence, and the creation of new political institutions. Fearing that their enemies were spreading fake news, American colonists fought for control of the news media. As their basic perceptions of reality diverged, Loyalists separated from Patriots and, in the new nation created by the revolution, Republicans inhabited a political reality quite distinct from that of their Federalist rivals."--Provided by publisher.American newspapersHistory18th centuryDisinformationAmericaHistory18th centuryForeign newsAmericaHistory18th centuryPress and politicsAmericaHistory18th centuryAmericaHistoryTo 1810AmericaPress coverageEuropeAmerican newspapersHistoryDisinformationHistoryForeign newsHistoryPress and politicsHistory070.44932Taylor Jordan E.1464301MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910795988603321Misinformation Nation3673882UNINA