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The postal age : the emergence of modern communications in nineteenth-century America / David M. Henkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xv, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226327205 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780226327204 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0226327213 (pbk.)
  • 9780226327211 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 383/.497309034 22
LOC classification:
  • HE6371 H512p 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HE6371 H512p 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 1 Available 00000055106

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-217) and index.

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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