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Knowledge is power: the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865
Richard D. Brown
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Frontmatter
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Introduction (page 3)
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Chapter 1 Information and Authority in Samuel Sewall's Boston, 1676-1729 (page 16)
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Chapter 2 William Byrd II an the Challenge of Rusticity Among the Tidewater Gentry (page 42)
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Chapter 3 Rural Clergymen and the Communication Networks of l8th-Century New England (page 65)
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Chapter 4 Lawyers, Public Ofice, and Communication Patterns in Provincial Massachusetts: The Early Careers of Robert Treat Paine and John Adams, 1749-1774 (page 82)
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Chapter 5 Communications and Commerce: Information Difusion in Northern Ports from the 1760s to the 1790s (page 110)
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Chapter 6 Information and Insularity: The Experiences of Yankee Farmers, 1711-1830 (page 132)
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Chapter 7 Daughters, Wives, Mothers: Domestic Roles and the Mastery of Affective Information, 1765-1865 (page 160)
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Chapter 8 William Bentley and the Ideal of Universal Information in the Enlightened Republic (page 197)
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Chapter 9 Choosing One's Fare: Northern Men in the 1840s (page 218)
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Chapter 10 The Dynamics of Contagious Difusion: The Battles of Lexington and Concord, George Washington's Death, and the Assassination of President Lincoln, 1775 -1865 (page 245)
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Conclusion (page 268 )
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Appendix (page 297 )
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Notes (page 303 )
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Index (page 363 )
Citable Link
Published: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780195361032 (ebook)
- 9780195044171 (hardcover)
- 9780195072655 (paper)