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Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South
Alejandra Dubcovsky
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Description for Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South
Hardcover. Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Informed Power maps the intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the colonial world came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or 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 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, shipwrecked sailors, captured soldiers, or fugitive slaves. The different ... Read more
Informed Power maps the intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the colonial world came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or 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 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, shipwrecked sailors, captured soldiers, or fugitive slaves. The different ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
582g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674660182
SKU
V9780674660182
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About Alejandra Dubcovsky
Alejandra Dubcovsky is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.
Reviews for Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South
Alejandra Dubcovsky offers a nuanced interpretation of the ways in which early Americans communicated. She is a master of the primary source evidence and employs her keen analytic abilities to reveal not only that knowledge was power in this early modern world but how it circulated and whom it benefited. A groundbreaking work.
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