The postal age : the emergence of modern communications in nineteenth-century America / David M. Henkin.
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TextPublication 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.)
- 383/.497309034 22
- HE6371 H512p 2006
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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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