Full title: Imprinting Britain : newspapers, sociability, and the shaping of British North America / Michael Eamon.

Author/creator: Eamon, Michael, 1972-.

Call Numbers: G 2015/3820

Record Identifier: 74VKRaN2l2kO

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xxii, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., , , , Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE PRINT AS SOCIABILITY -- 1.Driving the Stage Coach: The Printers of Halifax and Quebec City -- 2."Send me a Ton of Newspapers": Readers and Reading Habits of the Colonial Print Community -- 3."Directing Public Taste": British Tradition, Social Control, and the Newspaper -- 4.Enlightened Print: Popular Science and Useful Knowledge in the Service of the Public -- pt. TWO PRINT AND SOCIABILITY -- 5.Making Private Public: Print and the Promotion of Associative Life -- 6.With the "approbation of a numerous and respectable audience": Newspapers and the Public Acceptance of Theatre -- 7.The Coffeehouse Elite: Print and the Fashioning of "Genteel" British Tradition -- Conclusion: The Colonial Print Community's Imprint on British North America -- Appendices -- I.A Selection of Societies and Clubs in Halifax and Quebec City, 1760--1800 --, Contents note continued: II.A Selection of Plays Performed at Halifax and Quebec City as Recorded in Newspapers and in Printers' Records -- III.A Selection of Public Houses Identified as Coffeehouses in the Newspapers of Quebec City and Halifax, 1764--1800.

Publishers: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]

Notes: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; volume 65. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 071.109033

MMS ID: 991023145609702626