Trans-Atlantic Influences in Journalism History

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Abel, Richard.  The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture.  New Brunswick: Transaction, 2011.

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967.

Barbier, Frederic.  Gutenberg’s Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity.  New York: Polity, 2016.

Barker, Hannah.  Newspapers, Politics, and English Society, 1695-1855.  Harlow, Eng.: Longman, 2000.

Barry, Heather E.  “So Many American Catos: John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon’s Works in 18th Century British America.”  PhD dissertation, State University of New York-Stony Brook, 2002.

Black, Jeremy.  The English Press in the 18th Century.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.

Blagden, Cyprian.  The Stationer’s Company: A History, 1403-1959.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.

Censer, Jack R.  The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment.  New York: Routledge, 1994.

Clark, Charles E.  The Public Prints: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665-1740. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Clarke, Bob.  From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899.  Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004.

Clegg, Cyndia S.  Press Censorship in Elizabethan England.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Cook, Elizabeth Christine.  Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750.  Port Washington, NY, 1966.

Cressy, David.  Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Cressy, David.  Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Darnton, Robert, and Daniel Roche, eds.  Revolution in Print:  The Press in France, 1775-1800.  Berkeley: University of California Press in collaboration with the New York Public Library, New York, 1989.

Downie, J.A.  Robert Harley and the Press: Propaganda and Public Opinion in the Age of Swift and Defoe.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.  Grub Street Abroad : Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution.  New York: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Frank, Joseph.  The Beginnings of the English Newspaper, 1620-1660.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.

Halasz, Alexandra.  The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Harris, Michael.  Newspapers in the Age of Walpole: A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press.  Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987.

Lutnick, Solomon.  The American Revolution and the British Press, 1775-1783.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1967.

McKusker, John J.  “The Demise of Distance: The Business Press and the Origins of the Information Revolution in the Early Modern Atlantic World.”  American Historical Review 110:2 (April 2005): 295-321.

Morison, Samuel Eliot.  The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England.  New York, 1956.

Morriello, Francesco A. Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, 2023.

Patterson, Annabell.  Censorship and Interpretation: The Condition of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Raymond, Joad.  The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Siebert, Frederick S.  Freedom of the Press in England, 1476-1776.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952.

Smith, Nigel.  Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Sommerville, C. John.  The News Revolution in Europe: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Starr, Paul.  The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications.  New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Steele, Ian K.  The English Atlantic, 1675-1740: An Exploration in Communication and Community.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Sutherland, James.  The Restoration Newspaper and Its Development.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Trenchard, John, and Thomas Gordon.  Cato’s Letters, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Objects.  Ronald Hamowy, ed.  Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1995.

Wood, Marcus.  Radical Satire and Print Culture, 1790-1822.  London: Oxford University Press, 1994.  (England)

Voss, Paul J.  Elizabethan News Pamphlets: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and the Birth of Journalism.  Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2001.

Wiener, Joel H.  The Americanization of the British Press, 1830s–1914: Speed in the Age of Transatlantic Journalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 

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