TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Neill,Lindsay
TI  - The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World
T2  - The Early Modern Americas Series
SN  - 9780812290189
AV  - BJ2101 -- .O54 2015eb 
U1  - 302.2/244 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Letter writing-Social aspects-Great Britain-History-17th century
KW  - Letter writing-Social aspects-Great Britain-History-18th century
KW  - English letters-Great Britain-History-17th century
KW  - English letters-Great Britain-History-18th century
KW  - Social networks-Great Britain-History-17th century
KW  - Social networks-Great Britain-History-18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Speaking Letters -- Chapter 1. The Perils of the Post Office -- Chapter 2. Mapping the Epistolary World -- Chapter 3. Networking in the Epistolary World -- Chapter 4. Nurturing the Epistolary World -- Chapter 5. New Networks and Letters Less Familiar -- Chapter 6. Stirring News and the Role of the Letter -- Postscript -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments
N2  - By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the British became an early networking society, relying on letters to maintaining necessary social networks that British global expansion and mobility threatened to disconnect
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