The postal age : the emergence of modern communications in nineteenth-century America /

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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 inte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henkin, David M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 2006.
Temas:
1800-1899
Postal service > United States > History > 19th century.
Communication > Social aspects > United States.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
Communication > Social aspects
Postal service
Postwezen.
United States
Amerika.
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1: Joining a network. Becoming postal : a communications revolution in antebellum America
  • Mailable matters : from news to mail
  • Playing post office : mail in urban space
  • pt. 2: Postal intimacy. Embracing opportunities : the construction of the personal letter
  • Precious as gold : mobility and family in the Gold Rush and Civil War
  • Mass mailings : valentines, junk mail, and dead letters
  • Epilogue.

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