The Postal Age
The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
238 pages, 9 halftones 6 x 9
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2007
Cloth $38.00
ISBN: 9780226327204
Published November 2006
Paper $20.00
ISBN: 9780226327211
Published September 2007
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One - Joining a Network One: Becoming Postal: A Communications Revolution in Antebellum America
Two: Mailable Matters: From News to Mail
Three: Playing Post Office: Mail in Urban Space
Part Two - Postal Intimacy
Four: Embracing Opportunities: The Construction of the Personal Letter
Five: Precious as Gold: Mobility and Family in the Gold Rush and Civil War
Six: Mass Mailings: Valentines, Junk Mail, and Dead Letters
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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