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David M. Henkin - Postal Age, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Postal Age

The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America

Av David M. Henkin

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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 of everyday life. Through original correspondence and public discussions from the time period, Henkin tells the story of how Americans adjusted to a new world of long-distance correspondence, crowded post offices, junk mail, valentines, and dead letters. Throughout, "The Postal Age" paints a vibrant picture of a society where possibilities proliferated for personal and impersonal communications.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-09-01
  • Mått: 17 x 23 x 1 mm
  • Vikt: 340 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 238
  • Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226327211
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David M. Henkin is associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of City Reading.

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"The Postal Age is engagingly written, rich with anecdotes and observations that dramatize and illuminate the manifold facets of 'postal culture' in the antebellum United States.... It is a major contribution to American social history and to the history of communications in general." - Geoffrey Nunberg, author of Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times "The Postal Age succeeds in joining two kinds of history writing: the thoroughly professional and the engagingly popular. David M. Henkin offers a clinic in how to combine social analysis of institutions with cultural study of the rituals, emotions, and meanings by which people pattern their lives." - Richard Wightman Fox, author of Jesus in America"

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