TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dierks,Konstantin
TI  - In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America
T2  - Early American Studies
SN  - 9780812201758
AV  - PS416 -- .D54 2009eb 
U1  - 816/.309 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - American letters-18th century-History and criticism
KW  - Letter writing-United States-History-18th century
KW  - American letters-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Communications and Empire -- Chapter 2. Letter Writing and Commercial Revolution -- Chapter 3. Migration and Empire -- Chapter 4. Letter Writing and Consumer Revolution -- Chapter 5. Revolution and War -- Chapter 6. Universalism and the Epistolary Divide -- Conclusion -- Afterword: The Burden of Early American History -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
N2  - In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world
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