William Parks
Title | William Parks PDF eBook |
Author | A. Franklin Parks |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271052120 |
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, Printer and Journalist of England and Colonial America
Title | William Parks, Printer and Journalist of England and Colonial America PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Counselman Wroth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Bibliography |
ISBN |
Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory: for the ... Year of American Independence
Title | Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory: for the ... Year of American Independence PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1827 |
Genre | Almanacs, American |
ISBN |
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Title | Merchant Vessels of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1092 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Merchant marine |
ISBN |
History of Sullivan County
Title | History of Sullivan County PDF eBook |
Author | James Elbridge Quinlan |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2023-09-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368197509 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society
Title | Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society PDF eBook |
Author | New Hampshire Historical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1827 |
Genre | Local history |
ISBN |
List of members in v. 3, 5-6. 8.
Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States
Title | Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Merchant marine |
ISBN |