LEADER 03976nam 2200529 450 001 9910795988603321 005 20240114000015.0 010 $a9781421444505$b(electronic bk.) 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29138929 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29138929 035 $a(CKB)24762045800041 035 $a(OCoLC)1343245621 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110623 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924762045800041 100 $a20240114d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMisinformation Nation $eForeign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America /$fJordan E. Taylor 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (323 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Taylor, Jordan E. Misinformation Nation Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2022 327 $aIntroduction : "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. 330 $a"Fake news" is not new. Just like millions of Americans today, the revolutionaries of the eighteenth century worried that they were entering a "post-truth" era. Their fears, however, were not fixated on social media or clickbait, but rather on peoples' increasing reliance on reading news gathered from foreign newspapers. In Misinformation Nation, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation. News was the lifeblood of early American politics, but newspaper printers had few reliable sources to report on events from abroad. Accounts of battles and beheadings, as well as declarations and constitutions, often arrived alongside contradictory intelligence. Though frequently false, the information that Americans encountered in newspapers, letters, and conversations framed their sense of reality, leading them to respond with protests, boycotts, violence, and the creation of new political institutions. Fearing that their enemies were spreading fake news, American colonists fought for control of the news media. As their basic perceptions of reality diverged, Loyalists separated from Patriots and, in the new nation created by the revolution, Republicans inhabited a political reality quite distinct from that of their Federalist rivals."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican newspapers$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aDisinformation$zAmerica$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aForeign news$zAmerica$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPress and politics$zAmerica$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aAmerica$xHistory$yTo 1810 607 $aAmerica$xPress coverage$zEurope 615 0$aAmerican newspapers$xHistory 615 0$aDisinformation$xHistory 615 0$aForeign news$xHistory 615 0$aPress and politics$xHistory 676 $a070.44932 700 $aTaylor$b Jordan E.$01464301 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910795988603321 996 $aMisinformation Nation$93673882 997 $aUNINA