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American passage : the communications frontier in early New England /
"We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed-- not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of letters, travelers, rumors,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed-- not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of letters, travelers, rumors, and movement. Unearthing that early American communications frontier, American Passage retells the story of English colonization as less orderly and more precarious than the quiet villages of popular imagination"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (3̀12 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674735765 9780674735767 9780674289918 0674289919 |