American passage: the communications frontier in early New England

"We know surprisingly little about how news and information traveled in early America. No postal service existed. Earliest America published no newspapers. Not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of...

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1. Verfasser: Grandjean, Katherine 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Press 2015
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Zusammenfassung:"We know surprisingly little about how news and information traveled in early America. No postal service existed. Earliest America published no newspapers. Not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of letters, travelers, rumors, and movement. Unearthing that hidden world, the early American 'communications frontier,' this book retells the story of English colonization. It invites readers into a different colonial New England, less orderly and more precarious than the quiet Puritan villages of popular imagination, a darker place entirely"...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:312 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780674289918

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