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William Parks:

The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
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A biography of the early American printer William Parks. Examines his early career in England as well as his later work in Colonial Maryland and Virginia. Focuses on the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing.


Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Endings and Beginnings

2 The Worcestershire Apprentice

3 Striking Out on His Own

4 All the Encouraging Prospects of Success

5 Printing and Publishing in “The Age of Clamour”

6 “Printer to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, and the Province” of Maryland

7 Economics, Enlightenment, and the Maryland Gazette

8 Transforming the Discourse

9 Serving Two Masters

10 The Williamsburg Print Shop

11 Controversy and the Virginia Gazette

12 William Parks, Gent.

Epilogue

Appendix: Parks’s Family Background

Notes

Index


“This study is a valuable guide to the contexts in which religious, social and political print discourse took place in the southern colonies during the first decades of the eighteenth century.”

—Chris Fauske, Anglican and Episcopal History

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