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Autore: | Henkin David M |
Titolo: | The postal age : the emergence of modern communications in nineteenth-century America / / David M. Henkin |
Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University Of Chicago Press, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
Disciplina: | 383/.497309034 |
Soggetto topico: | Postal service - United States - History - 19th century |
Communication - Social aspects - United States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-217) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Joining a Network -- Part 2. Postal Intimacy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary as e-mail and text messages are today. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving world of telecommunications. This fascinating history traces these shifts from their beginnings in the mid-1800s, when cheaper postage, mass literacy, and migration combined to make the long-established postal service a more integral and viable part |
Titolo autorizzato: | The postal age |
ISBN: | 1-281-95712-7 |
9786611957124 | |
0-226-32722-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812461503321 |
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