Who cited whom tells you how information flowed through the revolutionary Atlantic. These animated maps show North American newspapers’ citations to foreign newspapers, by city, from 1755 through 1804.
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Notes
London remains the largest node throughout, but by the 1790s Paris and Amsterdam rival it. Caribbean, Canadian, Irish, and Indian citations appear only from the 1780s. Some nodes vanish as the events that drew attention pass. Discussed in Sharon Block’s William and Mary Quarterly essay (October 2019).