عنوان

Worlds of Print:

شماره

TL4bs33789

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Worlds of Print:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Slifko, John Paul

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

The Moral Imagination of an Informed Citizenry, 1734-1839

نام ساير پديدآوران

Entrikn, J. N.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

UCLA

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

UCLA

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

Plato, Aristotle, Baron Montesquieu, and Jean Jacques Rousseau argued that you could never have a democracy bigger than the geographic size, intimate oral habits, and embodied rituals of face-to-face communication, and walking distance of a Greek city-state, French town, or small Swiss city. However, in the years surrounding the 1776 American War of Independence and accelerating into the 1800s in the American northeast and mid-Atlantic, there was a significant cultural transformation in the transition from oral/aural cultures to an increasingly literate citizenry. A consequence of this transition was an expanded geographical range of democratic engagement. I argue that freemasonry was representative and played an important role in this transformation and helped articulate the moral imagination of an informed democratic citizenry via fast emerging worlds of print. A metamorphosis occurred through worlds of print anchored at home in the routine lives of local community and transmission in space across networks of place. Communication and political participation were enhanced in early America through a growing range of print vehicles such as pamphlets, newspapers, declarations and books of all types concerned with ancient and modern learning. The formation of local civic associations and reading libraries further contributed to this growth of available print documents. In this dissertation I examine the vital roles that freemasons played in this print transformation.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Slifko, John Paul

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Entrikn, J. N.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

UCLA

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y