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Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865

Richard D. Brown (Author)
One of the leading scholars dealing with early communication history in America, Richard Brown discusses how information moved through eighteenth and nineteenth-century American society, principally through the expansion of the printed word and its change from the property of the learned and wealthy into a mass-audience market
eBook, English, 1989
Oxford University Press, New York, 1989
History
1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780195044171, 9780195072655, 9781280441349, 9780195361032, 9786610441341, 0195044177, 0195072650, 1280441348, 0195361032, 6610441340
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1. Information and authority in Samuel Sewall's Boston, 1676-1729
2. William Byrd II and the challenge of rusticity among the tidewater gentry
3. Rural clergymen and the communication networks of 18th-century New England
4. Lawyers, public office, and communication patterns in provincial Massachusetts : the early careers of Robert Treat Paine and John Adams, 1749-1774
5. Communications and commerce : information diffusion in northern ports from the 1760s to the 1790s
6. Information and insularity : the experiences of Yankee farmers, 1711-1830
7. Daughters, wives, mothers : domestic roles and the mastery of affective information, 1765-1865
8. William Bentley and the ideal of universal information in the enlightened republic
9. Choosing one's fare : Northern men in the 1840s
10. The dynamics of contagious diffusion : the battles of Lexington and Concord, George Washington's death, and the assassination of President Lincoln, 1775-1865
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010