"Guardians of their own liberty": A contextual history of print culture in Virginia society, 1750 to 1820

This study examines the socioeconomic and sociocultural contexts of printing and reading in Virginia between 1750 and 1820. By scrutinizing the surviving business records from this period's book and printing trades, and by correlating them to the extant public record, the social locus of partic...

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Main Author: Rawson, David A.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: W&M ScholarWorks 1998
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539720311
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5183&context=etd