{"title":"Women in George Washington's World ed. by Charlene M. Boyer Lewis and George W. Boudreau (review)","authors":"M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.a905099","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"spotty. For example, when Taylor argues that historians need to take seriously colonists’ fear that they were being misrepresented to the metropole, is Taylor’s explanation really so diff er ent from Bernard Bailyn’s argument, that fears of misrepre sen ta tion and conspiracy formed the ideological basis of the American Revolution?3 Deeper consideration of imperial histories that have dealt with governors, kings, ministers, legislatures, and petitions might have added heft and complexity to Taylor argument about misrepre sen ta tion and mediation during the imperial crisis. Sustained engagement with works about the growing partisanship of early republic newspapers, Sedition Act, and the XYZ Affair, such as Pasley’s Tyranny of Printers, might have helped Taylor make clearer to his readers the significance of his work, particularly his analy sis of citations and his thoughtful comparisons between Amer i ca, British Canada, and Spanish Louisiana.4 All in all, Misinformation Nation is a welcome addition to the lit er a ture on eighteenthcentury communications. Taylor’s transatlantic perspective informed by continental comparisons enriches our understanding of the period.","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.a905099","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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spotty. For example, when Taylor argues that historians need to take seriously colonists’ fear that they were being misrepresented to the metropole, is Taylor’s explanation really so diff er ent from Bernard Bailyn’s argument, that fears of misrepre sen ta tion and conspiracy formed the ideological basis of the American Revolution?3 Deeper consideration of imperial histories that have dealt with governors, kings, ministers, legislatures, and petitions might have added heft and complexity to Taylor argument about misrepre sen ta tion and mediation during the imperial crisis. Sustained engagement with works about the growing partisanship of early republic newspapers, Sedition Act, and the XYZ Affair, such as Pasley’s Tyranny of Printers, might have helped Taylor make clearer to his readers the significance of his work, particularly his analy sis of citations and his thoughtful comparisons between Amer i ca, British Canada, and Spanish Louisiana.4 All in all, Misinformation Nation is a welcome addition to the lit er a ture on eighteenthcentury communications. Taylor’s transatlantic perspective informed by continental comparisons enriches our understanding of the period.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of the Early Republic is a quarterly journal committed to publishing the best scholarship on the history and culture of the United States in the years of the early republic (1776–1861). JER is published for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. SHEAR membership includes an annual subscription to the journal.