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American passage : the communications frontier in early New England
- Title
- American passage : the communications frontier in early New England / Katherine Grandjean.
- Author
- Grandjean, Katherine, 1977-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IQ 15-859 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- 312 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "We know surprisingly little about how news and information traveled in early America. No postal service existed. Earliest America published no newspapers. 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 hidden world, the early American 'communications frontier, ' this book retells the story of English colonization. It invites readers into a different colonial New England, less orderly and more precarious than the quiet Puritan villages of popular imagination, a darker place entirely"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Communication > Social aspects > New England > History > 17th century
- New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Information behavior > New England > History > 17th century
- New England > Social life and customs > To 1775
- Frontier and pioneer life > New England
- New England > Social conditions > 17th century
- Social networks > New England > History > 17th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Footprints -- The ocean of troubles and trials wherein we saile -- A messenger comes -- Native tongues -- Post haste -- An adder in the path -- Terror ubique tremor -- Milestones -- A note on method.
- Call Number
- IQ 15-859
- ISBN
- 9780674289918
- 0674289919
- LCCN
- 2014014452
- OCLC
- 883836210
- Author
- Grandjean, Katherine, 1977- author.
- Title
- American passage : the communications frontier in early New England / Katherine Grandjean.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IQ 15-859