TY - BOOK ID - 12018338 TI - The postal age : the emergence of modern communications in nineteenth-century America PY - 2006 SN - 0226327205 9786611957124 1281957127 0226327221 9780226327228 9781281957122 9780226327204 9780226327204 9780226327211 0226327213 661195712X PB - Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Communication. KW - Postal service. KW - Business. KW - Postal service KW - Communication KW - Transportation Economics KW - Business & Economics KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Mail KW - Mail service KW - Post-office KW - Carriers KW - Communication and traffic KW - Transportation KW - 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. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12018338 AB - 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 ER -