TY - BOOK ID - 2407162 TI - Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865 PY - 1989 SN - 0195044177 1601298579 1423737539 0195072650 1280441348 0198021348 9780195072655 9781423737537 0197714161 0197554997 PB - New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press DB - UniCat KW - Communication KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - History KW - United States KW - Civilization KW - To 1783 KW - 1783-1865 KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2407162 AB - Discusses how information moved through 18th- and 19th-century American society, mainly through the expansion of the printed word and its change from the possession of the learned and wealthy into a mass-audience market. ER -