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100 1 $aCopeland, David A.,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96033767
245 10 $aColonial American newspapers :$bcharacter and content /$cDavid A. Copeland.
260 $aNewark :$bUniversity of Delaware Press ;$aLondon ;$aCranbury, NJ :$bAssociated University Presses,$c1997.
263 $a9611
300 $a388 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 362-378) and index.
520 $aIn this book, scholar and journalist David A. Copeland provides a comprehensive discussion of the character and content of the news that ran in British American newspapers from their beginning in 1690 to the end of the colonial era.
520 8 $aCopeland reveals that the first generation of American papers focused on more than European news and governmental decrees and actions; they provided a variety of news topics designed to meet the informational needs of society, including news of the sea, Native Americans, religion, slaves, and crime.
520 8 $aIn addition, news provided citizens with a certain amount of diversion and amusement through sensationalism, literature, poetry, and sports and kept colonial citizens apprised of weather, obituaries, accidents, agriculture, and social news.
520 8 $aTo discover the news content of colonial newspapers, Copeland uses seventy-nine different English-language newspapers printed during the colonial period. Approximately seventy-four hundred newspaper issues were read in their entirety to provide a body of information previously unavailable to those studying media and colonial American history.
520 8 $aColonial American Newspapers fills an important gap in the study of the content of colonial prints and concludes that as newspapers evolved to meet the informational needs of society, they helped unify the colonies by focusing upon events of local and intercolonial importance.
520 8 $aColonial newspapers' claim that they printed "the freshest Advices Foreign and Domestic" developed into a thirst for news in America, something that New-York Gazette printer James Parker realized that the people "can't be without."
650 0 $aAmerican newspapers$xHistory$y18th century.
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