What a treat, an Ebla to E-Books post waiting for me this morning. I looked around but couldn't find the Christmas tree. As always, educational and pertinent to far more than the period and details in the post. Congratulations, and thanks.
Do you know of a go-to source that comprehensibly analogizes the pamphleteering of the English Civil War with respect to that of the American Revolutionary War over a century later?
Maybe these would reflect? : Dickinson, Harry Thomas. British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763-1785. Vol. 5 Vol. 5. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008.
You're a library scientist, the closest thing there is to an academic qualification for broad-based research. You're not the story, but this leads me to think there may be room for an e-book on the documented history of internet discourse, particularly Twitter and its imitators. Do you know a social media historian who might take this on?
O, there is a lot. I think because it's easy to collect the data. This one looks interesting: Samuel, Gabrielle, Gemma E. Derrick, and Thed van Leeuwen. 2019. “The Ethics Ecosystem: Personal Ethics, Network Governance and Regulating Actors Governing the Use of Social Media Research Data.” Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning & Policy 57 (3): 317–43.
The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, 1764·-1776 (two volumes), edited by Gordon Wood; Library of America, 1,889 pages.
The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, 1764-1776 is the latest installment in this now long-running series and is published this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the Stamp Act crisis.[ 1] Edited by Gordon Wood, an emeritus professor of history at Brown University and the foremost living historian on the Revolutionary era, this two-volume collection brings together the writings of influential British and American pamphleteers who debated the issues of Parliamentary authority in America and the place of the colonies in the Empire during the tense decade leading up to the outbreak of the revolution. The collection of thirty-nine separate pamphlet essays is skillfully edited both to illuminate the issues and events that strained relations between the British government and the American colonists and to illustrate the back-and-forth nature of the debate as pamphleteers in London and America responded to one another in an unfolding sequence of claims and counter-claims regarding the nature and limits of British authority in the colonies. The two-volume set also contains short essays by the editor on each pamphlet, extensive bibliographical notes on the pamphlets, brief biographies of the pamphleteers, and a comprehensive chronology of the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence.
What a treat, an Ebla to E-Books post waiting for me this morning. I looked around but couldn't find the Christmas tree. As always, educational and pertinent to far more than the period and details in the post. Congratulations, and thanks.
As soon as people got access to print they began to fol each other--pamphlets their version of tweeting.
Kathleen:
Do you know of a go-to source that comprehensibly analogizes the pamphleteering of the English Civil War with respect to that of the American Revolutionary War over a century later?
Maybe these would reflect? : Dickinson, Harry Thomas. British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763-1785. Vol. 5 Vol. 5. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008.
You're a library scientist, the closest thing there is to an academic qualification for broad-based research. You're not the story, but this leads me to think there may be room for an e-book on the documented history of internet discourse, particularly Twitter and its imitators. Do you know a social media historian who might take this on?
O, there is a lot. I think because it's easy to collect the data. This one looks interesting: Samuel, Gabrielle, Gemma E. Derrick, and Thed van Leeuwen. 2019. “The Ethics Ecosystem: Personal Ethics, Network Governance and Regulating Actors Governing the Use of Social Media Research Data.” Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning & Policy 57 (3): 317–43.
"there may be room for an e-book on the documented history of internet discourse"
It's a much narrower lens than what you propose here, but I recommend Angela Nagle's "Kill All Normies" -- her analysis of the internet "alt-right."
This sounds interesting: Pamphlets of revolution.
The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, 1764·-1776 (two volumes), edited by Gordon Wood; Library of America, 1,889 pages.
The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, 1764-1776 is the latest installment in this now long-running series and is published this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the Stamp Act crisis.[ 1] Edited by Gordon Wood, an emeritus professor of history at Brown University and the foremost living historian on the Revolutionary era, this two-volume collection brings together the writings of influential British and American pamphleteers who debated the issues of Parliamentary authority in America and the place of the colonies in the Empire during the tense decade leading up to the outbreak of the revolution. The collection of thirty-nine separate pamphlet essays is skillfully edited both to illuminate the issues and events that strained relations between the British government and the American colonists and to illustrate the back-and-forth nature of the debate as pamphleteers in London and America responded to one another in an unfolding sequence of claims and counter-claims regarding the nature and limits of British authority in the colonies. The two-volume set also contains short essays by the editor on each pamphlet, extensive bibliographical notes on the pamphlets, brief biographies of the pamphleteers, and a comprehensive chronology of the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence.