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Author:

Grandjean, Katherine, 1977-

Title:

American passage : the communications frontier in early New England / Katherine Grandjean.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New England--Social life and customs--To 1775.
New England--Social conditions--17th century.
Communication--History--New England--History--17th century.
Social networks--New England--History--17th century.
Information behavior--New England--History--17th century.
Frontier and pioneer life--New England.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Footprints -- The ocean of troubles and trials wherein we saile -- A messenger comes -- Native tongues -- Post haste -- An adder in the path -- Terror ubique tremor -- Milestones -- A note on method.

Summary:

"We know surprisingly little about how news and information traveled in early America. No postal service existed. Earliest America published no newspapers. 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 hidden world, the early American 'communications frontier,' this book retells the story of English colonization. It invites readers into a different colonial New England, less orderly and more precarious than the quiet Puritan villages of popular imagination, a darker place entirely"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0674289919
9780674289918

OCLC:

(OCoLC)883836210

LCCN:

2014014452

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)