The postal age [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of modern communications in nineteenth-century America / / David M. Henkin

• Autore: Henkin David M
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University Of Chicago Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 383/.497309034
• Soggetto topico: Postal service - United States - History - 19th century; Communication - Social aspects - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: communication, social change, post office, letters, correspondance, postal network, telecommunications, postage, literacy, migration, civil war, gold rush, immigration, race, poverty, junk mail, valentines, antebellum, history, nonfiction, news, urban, family, mass mailing, information, intimacy, connection, distance, pioneers, american west, frontier, labor, travel, relocation, homestead
• 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.: 9910782552103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II