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Postal culture in Europe, 1500-1800 / Jay Caplan.
LIBRA PQ2105.A2 S8 2016:04
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caplan, Jay, author.
- Series:
- Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2016:04.
- Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Postal service--Europe--History--18th century.
- Postal service.
- Written communication--Europe--History--18th century.
- Written communication.
- Communication--Social aspects--Europe.
- Communication.
- Communication--Social aspects.
- History.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK : Voltaire Foundation, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English with some text in French and German, followed by English translations.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A brief history of western European postal services in the early modern period
- Signed, sealed and delivered
- Surveillance and secrecy : the black cabinets
- Voltaire's post : 1760-1770
- Rousseau : vox clamantis
- A postal world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780729411752
- 0729411753
- OCLC:
- 946473071
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