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The Opened Letter : Networking in the Early Modern British World.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Early Modern Americas SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812290189
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Opened LetterDDC classification:
  • 302.2/244
LOC classification:
  • BJ2101 -- .O54 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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