Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865Oxford University Press, 05.09.1991 - 372 Seiten Brown here explores America's first communications revolution--the revolution that made printed goods and public oratory widely available and, by means of the steamboat, railroad and telegraph, sharply accelerated the pace at which information travelled. He describes the day-to-day experiences of dozens of men and women, and in the process illuminates the social dimensions of this profound, far-reaching transformation. Brown begins in Massachusetts and Virginia in the early 18th century, when public information was the precious possession of the wealthy, learned, and powerful, who used it to reinforce political order and cultural unity. Employing diaries and letters to trace how information moved through society during seven generations, he explains that by the Civil War era, cultural unity had become a thing of the past. Assisted by advanced technology and an expanding economy, Americans had created a pluralistic information marketplace in which all forms of public communication--print, oratory, and public meetings--were competing for the attention of free men and women. Knowledge is Power provides fresh insights into the foundations of American pluralism and deepens our perspective on the character of public communications in the United States. |
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... printing press onward , Western society has been caught up in an information and communication revolution that now , at the end of the 20th century , appears to have entered a more dynamic , accelerat- ing phase than ever before.2 ...
... printing press onward , Western society has been caught up in an information and communication revolution that now , at the end of the 20th century , appears to have entered a more dynamic , accelerat- ing phase than ever before.2 ...
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... printed matter to make a modicum of extra - local political knowledge and power broadly accessible . The ... printing and of journalism3 and , more recently , studies in the history of the book and of literacy have re- vealed not only ...
... printed matter to make a modicum of extra - local political knowledge and power broadly accessible . The ... printing and of journalism3 and , more recently , studies in the history of the book and of literacy have re- vealed not only ...
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... printed goods locally and nationally , while a wealth of studies of electoral politics and party systems has enabled ... printing and journalism , politics and voluntary associations , or education and recreation . Consequently the ...
... printed goods locally and nationally , while a wealth of studies of electoral politics and party systems has enabled ... printing and journalism , politics and voluntary associations , or education and recreation . Consequently the ...
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... printed goods and public oratory became more and more wide- spread , their several formats , each appealing to distinct audiences and markets , exercised major influences on the diffusion of information . At the time of Abraham ...
... printed goods and public oratory became more and more wide- spread , their several formats , each appealing to distinct audiences and markets , exercised major influences on the diffusion of information . At the time of Abraham ...
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1 Information and Authority in Samuel Sewalls Boston 16761729 | 16 |
2 William Byrd II and the Challenge of Rusticity Among the Tidewater Gentry | 42 |
3 Rural Clergymen and the Communication Networks of 18thCentury New England | 65 |
The Early Careers of Robert Treat Paine and John Adams 17491774 | 82 |
Information Diffusion in Northern Ports from the 1760s to the 1790s | 110 |
The Experiences of Yankee Farmers 17111830 | 132 |
Domestic Roles and the Mastery of Affective Information 17651865 | 160 |
8 William Bentley and the Ideal of Universal Information in the Enlightened Republic | 197 |
Northern Men in the 1840s | 218 |
The Battles of Lexington and Concord George Washingtons Death and the Assassination of President Lincoln 17751865 | 245 |
Conclusion | 268 |
Appendix | 297 |
Notes | 303 |
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18th century activities affairs American Antiquarian Society Ballard became Bentley's Bernard Bailyn Boston Bowen Calvin Fletcher Cambridge Carpenter church circle clergy clergymen Colonial communication Connecticut conversation cosmopolitan County daughters Diary diffusion of information early elite England English experience face-to-face farm farmers Fletcher genteel gentlemen gentry Guion Harvard Hempstead Historical Society History Ibid information diffusion information networks Isaac Mickle John Adams Journal July knowledge lawyers learned letters literacy London Lucy Breckinridge Martha Ballard Mary Mass Massachusetts merchants neighbors newspapers novels papers parish Parker pattern Philadelphia political printed Pynchon reading religious reports republic republican Revolution Revolutionary Robert Treat Paine role rural Salem Samuel Samuel Sewall Sanger Sarah Hill Sept sermons Sewall Sewall's social Tidewater tion Virginia visited Washington Weaver William Bentley William Byrd William Byrd II William Pynchon women word-of-mouth York