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  2. Pamphlet wars - Wikipedia

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    Pamphlet wars refer to any protracted argument or discussion through printed medium, especially between the time the printing press became common, and when state intervention like copyright laws made such public discourse more difficult. [citation needed] The purpose was to defend or attack a certain perspective or idea. Pamphlet wars have ...

  3. List of pamphlet wars - Wikipedia

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    For several centuries after the printing press became common, people would print their own ideas in small pamphlets somewhat akin to modern blogs. [1] While these could not be widely available via the internet they could "go viral", [ 2 ] because others were free to reprint pamphlets they liked, and therefore ideas were widely spread. [ 3 ]

  4. Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts - Wikipedia

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    The tracts consist of a broad range of writings, including sermons, songs, political speeches, debates, opinions, jokes, gossip, news reports, descriptions of the trial and execution of Charles I, accounts of Civil War battles, reports from Parliament, and several regularly appearing publications that historians consider the forebears of modern ...

  5. Revolution Controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Revolution Controversy was a British debate over the French Revolution from 1789 to 1795. [1] A pamphlet war began in earnest after the publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which defended the House of Bourbon, the French aristocracy, and the Catholic Church in France.

  6. The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth

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    The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth was a political tract by John Milton published in London at the end of February 1660. The full title is "The readie & easie way to establish a Free Commonwealth, and the excellence therof compar'd with the inconveniences and dangers of readmitting kingship in this nation.

  7. Early American publishers and printers - Wikipedia

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    While the proposed U.S. Constitution was being debated by Congressmen and other political figures, and during its ratification, many newspapers and pamphlets, mostly in support of the Constitution, reporters worked furiously in an effort to cover and report on the many details discussed.

  8. Joseph Swetnam - Wikipedia

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    The arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and unconstant women was published in 1615 under the pseudonym Thomas Tell-Troth. Despite this attempt at anonymity, Swetnam was quickly known as the true author (The full title of the original pamphlet was: The araignment of leuud, idle, froward, and vnconstant women : or the vanitie of them, choose you whether : with a commendation of wise, vertuous ...

  9. Marprelate Controversy - Wikipedia

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    The title page of the Cavaliero Pasquill's "Countercuffe to Martin Junior," 1589, one of the anti-Martinist tracts.. The Marprelate Controversy was a war of pamphlets waged in England and Wales in 1588 and 1589, between a puritan writer who employed the pseudonym Martin Marprelate, and defenders of the Church of England which remained an established church.