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Table of Contents
Foreword by David Waldstreicher....................................................................................i
Acknowledgements .........................................................................................................iii
Chapter 1
Prologue: Culture of Deference ...................................................................................1
Chapter 2
Print Culture in the Early Chesapeake Region...........................................................13
Chapter 3
A Limited Print Culture.........................................................................................14
Print Culture Broadens ...........................................................................................28
Chesapeake Newspapers and Expanding Civic Discourse, 1728-1764.......................57
Chapter 4
Early Newspaper Form...........................................................................................58
Changes: Discourse Increases and Broadens ..............................................................76
The Colonial Chesapeake Almanac: Revolutionary “Agent of Change” ...................97
Chapter 5
The “Almanacks”.....................................................................................................99
Women, Print, and Discourse .................................................................................133
Chapter 6
Women and Literacy .............................................................................................137
Books....................................................................................................................140
Ephemeral Press....................................................................................................143
Women and the Civic Public..................................................................................152
The Stamp Act ........................................................................................................161
Parliament’s Act....................................................................................................161