the communications frontier in early New England /
First Statement of Responsibility
Katherine Grandjean.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (3̀12 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Contents -- Footprints -- 1. The Ocean of Troubles and Trials wherein We Saile -- 2. A Messenger Comes -- 3. Native Tongues -- 4. Post Haste -- 5. An Adder in the Path -- 6. Terror Ubique Tremor -- Milestones -- A Note on Method -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed-- not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of letters, travelers, rumors, and movement. Unearthing that early American communications frontier, American Passage retells the story of English colonization as less orderly and more precarious than the quiet villages of popular imagination"--Provided by publisher.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt1348vkh
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Title
American Passage : The Communications Frontier in Early New England.
International Standard Book Number
9780674289918
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communication-- Social aspects-- New England-- History-- 17th century.
Frontier and pioneer life-- New England.
Information behavior-- New England-- History-- 17th century.
Social networks-- New England-- History-- 17th century.
Communication-- Social aspects.
Frontier and pioneer life.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- General.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Information behavior.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions.
Social networks.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
New England, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.