Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 - Couverture rigide

Brown, Richard D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195044177 ISBN 13 : 9780195044171

Editeur : Oxford Univ Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Brown Richard D

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"There may be no better way to comprehend the deluge of daily information under which we exist than to turn the clock back to early America. Richard D Brown's analysis of information networks in New England and Tidewater Virginia provides the context that places our current information explosion in perspective. A professor of history at the University of Connecticut, Brown derives the bulk of his data from selected diaries, journals, and letters....The book is an immensely readable portrait of early Americans, the product of a writer in control of his material. it is a story of both the small and great, engaged in the formation and diffusion of information." Journalism Quarterly

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the leading scholars dealing with early communication history in America, Richard Brown discusses how information moved through eighteenth and nineteenth-century American society, principally through the expansion of the printed word and its change from the property of the learned and wealthy into a mass-audience market.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Univ Pr
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195044177
• ISBN 13: 9780195044171
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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