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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grandjean, Katherine, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life.

Information behavior.

History.

Social networks.

Communication--Social aspects.

Social conditions.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New England.

New England--Social life and customs--To 1775.

Manners and customs.

New England--Social conditions--17th century.

Communication--Social aspects--New England--History--17th century.

Communication.

Social networks--New England--History--17th century.

Information behavior--New England--History--17th century.

Frontier and pioneer life--New England.

Physical Description:

312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674289918

0674289919

OCLC:

883836210