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9780226327204
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Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary. 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
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CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I. JOINING A NETWORK; 1 BECOMING POSTAL: A COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA; 2 MAILABLE MATTERS: FROM NEWS TO MAIL; 3 PLAYING POST OFFICE: MAIL IN URBAN SPACE; PART II. POSTAL INTIMACY; 4 EMBRACING OPPORTUNITIES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PERSONAL LETTER; EPILOGUE; NOTES; INDEX;
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ISBN 9780226327228
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ISBN 9780226327204
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Postal Age : The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
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