{"product_id":"misinformation-nation-9781421444499","title":"Misinformation Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFundamentally reshapes our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the pivotal role foreign news and misinformation played in driving colonists to revolt.   Runner-up of the Journal of The American Revolution Book of the Year Award by the Journal of The American RevolutionFake 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 a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaylor's erudite and engaging debut vividly demonstrates the challenges of transmitting information in the early modern age.\u003cbr\u003e—Barbara Spindel, \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJordan E. Taylor's book \u003ci\u003eMisinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America\u003c\/i\u003e tackles this topic in a masterful way, examining the nature of news and the factors that affected it, from the advent of revolution through the rise of federalism.\u003cbr\u003e—Don N. Hagist, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA must-read intervention in the historiography of the American Revolution, a newspaper-driven perspective on paranoia, propaganda, and the emergence of a national identity.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eContingent Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMisinformation Nation\u003c\/i\u003e makes us grapple with an entirely new dimension of the Revolution and early republic, while providing an engaging narrative with clear similarities to present struggles.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eH-Early America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout this thought-provoking and engaging book, Taylor examines how people got information, what they did with it, and why the circulation of more information often led to polarized, volatile, and even revolutionary politics.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSociety for U.S. Intellectual History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. \"Any Thing But the Age of Reason\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Foreign Advices and False Friends: The Mediation Revolution in British America\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Taxation with Misrepresentation: Fears of Deception in the Anglo-American Imperial Crisis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Lying Gazettes: News from London in Revolutionary Politics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. An Ocean of News: Independence, Commerce, and Atlantic Information Exchange\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Genius of Information: Scripting an Age of Revolutions\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The American Constellation: Dreams of a Continental Revolution\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Bentalou's Wager: The French Revolution and the Birth of American Partisanship\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Unmaking the Revolutionary Caribbean: Race, Commerce, and Communication in the Early Republic\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Fruits of Revolution: False News and the Eclipse of the Federalists\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue. Tanguy's Faithful Mirror\u003cbr\u003eAppendix. A Note on Data Sources\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408146833751,"sku":"9781421444499","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/misinformation-nation-9781421444499","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}