عنوان

Informed power :

شابک

0674660188 (hbk.)

شابک

9780674660182 (hbk.)

عنوان اصلي

Informed power :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

communication in the early American South /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Alejandra Dubcovsky.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Harvard University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

287 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations, maps ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-273) and index.

متن يادداشت

Informed Power maps the intricate, intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the colonial world came into possession of vital knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system of a printing press until the 1730s. Challenging the notion of early colonial America as an uninformed backwater, Alejandra Dubcovsky uncovers the ingenious ways its inhabitants acquired timely news through largely oral networks. Information circulated through the region via spies, scouts, traders, missionaries, and other ad hoc couriers - and by encounters of sheer chance with hunting parties, ship-wrecked sailors, captured soldiers, or fugitive slaves. For many, content was often inseparable from the paths taken and the alliances involved in acquiring it. The different and innovative ways that Indians, Africans, and Europeans struggled to make sense of their world created communication networks that linked together peoples who otherwise shared no consensus of the physical and political boundaries shaping their lives. Exchanging information was not simply about having the most up-to-date news or the quickest messenger. It was a way of establishing and maintaining relationships, of articulating values and enforcing priorities - a process inextricably tied to the region's social and geopolitical realities. At the heart of Dubcovsky's study are important lessons about the nexus of information and power in the early American South. -- from dust jacket.

موضوع مستند نشده

Communication-- Southern States-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Power (Social sciences)-- Southern States-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Communication.

موضوع مستند نشده

Power (Social sciences)

موضوع مستند نشده

Southern States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

موضوع مستند نشده

Southern States.

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dubcovsky, Alejandra,1983-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822121911.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y