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In My Power : Letter Writing and Communications in Early America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (377 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201758
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In My PowerDDC classification:
  • 816/.309
LOC classification:
  • PS416 -- .D54 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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