Author: A. Franklin Parks
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271052120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher&’s path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While incorporating much new biographical information, the book widens the lens to take in the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic&—as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing in England and colonial America in the early to mid-eighteenth century, with the printer as a focal point. After a struggling start in England, William Parks became a critical figure for both Annapolis and Williamsburg. He provided the southern United States with its first newspapers as well as civic leadership, book printing and selling, paper, and even postal services. Despite Jefferson&’s later dismissal of his Williamsburg newspaper as simply a governmental organ, Parks often pushed the limits of what was expected of a public printer, occasionally getting into trouble and confronting the kind of control and censorship that would eventually make evident the need for press freedoms in the new republic. It has often been asserted that, had Parks not died unexpectedly and relatively young, his reputation would have rivaled that of Franklin as a printer, entrepreneur, and man of affairs.
William Parks
Author: A. Franklin Parks
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271052120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher&’s path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While incorporating much new biographical information, the book widens the lens to take in the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic&—as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing in England and colonial America in the early to mid-eighteenth century, with the printer as a focal point. After a struggling start in England, William Parks became a critical figure for both Annapolis and Williamsburg. He provided the southern United States with its first newspapers as well as civic leadership, book printing and selling, paper, and even postal services. Despite Jefferson&’s later dismissal of his Williamsburg newspaper as simply a governmental organ, Parks often pushed the limits of what was expected of a public printer, occasionally getting into trouble and confronting the kind of control and censorship that would eventually make evident the need for press freedoms in the new republic. It has often been asserted that, had Parks not died unexpectedly and relatively young, his reputation would have rivaled that of Franklin as a printer, entrepreneur, and man of affairs.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271052120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher&’s path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While incorporating much new biographical information, the book widens the lens to take in the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic&—as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing in England and colonial America in the early to mid-eighteenth century, with the printer as a focal point. After a struggling start in England, William Parks became a critical figure for both Annapolis and Williamsburg. He provided the southern United States with its first newspapers as well as civic leadership, book printing and selling, paper, and even postal services. Despite Jefferson&’s later dismissal of his Williamsburg newspaper as simply a governmental organ, Parks often pushed the limits of what was expected of a public printer, occasionally getting into trouble and confronting the kind of control and censorship that would eventually make evident the need for press freedoms in the new republic. It has often been asserted that, had Parks not died unexpectedly and relatively young, his reputation would have rivaled that of Franklin as a printer, entrepreneur, and man of affairs.
Dr. William Beaumont
Author: Keith R. Widder
Publisher:
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Category : Fort Mackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Fort Mackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
William Parks, Printer and Journalist of England and Colonial America
Author: Lawrence Counselman Wroth
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory: for the ... Year of American Independence
Author:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Merchant Vessels of the United States
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
History of Sullivan County
Author: James Elbridge Quinlan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368197509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368197509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society
Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Publisher:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
List of members in v. 3, 5-6. 8.
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
List of members in v. 3, 5-6. 8.
Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
William Parks Club Publications
Author: William Parks Club
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788370141028
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9788370141028
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
List of Documents in the Public Record Office in London, England, Relating to the Province of New Hampshire
Author: New Hampshire historical society, Concord
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description