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The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America

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The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America - Henkin, David M
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Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary. 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 ...

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The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America 2007, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226327211

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The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America 2006, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226327204

Hardcover