William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)

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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. Even as incorporating much new biographical information, the book widens the lens to take in the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic—in addition to the societal pressures on printing and publishing in England and colonial The usa 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 in addition to civic leadership, book printing and selling, paper, and even postal services and products. Despite Jefferson’s later dismissal of his Williamsburg newspaper as simply a governmental organ, Parks ceaselessly pushed the limits of what was expected of a public printer, every so often getting into trouble and confronting the type of keep an eye on and censorship that would eventually make evident the need for press freedoms in the new republic. It has ceaselessly been asserted that, had Parks not died swiftly and reasonably young, his reputation would have rivaled that of Franklin as a printer, entrepreneur, and man of affairs.

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