Konstantin Dierks

In My Power

Letter Writing and Communications in Early America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Early American Studies
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9780812221817
• ISBN-10: 0812221818
• Artikelnr.: 33875200

Autorenporträt

By Konstantin Dierks

Inhaltsangabe

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