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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
Communication. --- Postal service. --- Business. --- Postal service --- Communication --- Transportation Economics --- Business & Economics --- History --- Social aspects --- Mail --- Mail service --- Post-office --- Carriers --- Communication and traffic --- Transportation --- 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.
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"A collection of essays investigating photography's role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
Photography --- Mass media --- Mass media. --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- History --- History of civilization --- anno 1800-1899 --- Photography - History - 19th century --- Mass media - History - 19th century
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This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field--the history of letters and letter writing--is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature.
American letters --- Letter writing --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- History
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