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Knowledge is power: the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865
Brown, Richard D.
Year: 1989.
Publisher:  Oxford University Press. 
© Richard D. Brown
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Frontmatter
Introduction
Chapter 1 Information and Authority in Samuel Sewall's Boston, 1676-1729
Chapter 2 William Byrd II an the Challenge of Rusticity Among the Tidewater Gentry
Chapter 3 Rural Clergymen and the Communication Networks of l8th-Century New England
Chapter 4 Lawyers, Public Ofice, and Communication Patterns in Provincial Massachusetts: The Early Careers of Robert Treat Paine and John Adams, 1749-1774
Chapter 5 Communications and Commerce: Information Difusion in Northern Ports from the 1760s to the 1790s
Chapter 6 Information and Insularity: The Experiences of Yankee Farmers, 1711-1830
Chapter 7 Daughters, Wives, Mothers: Domestic Roles and the Mastery of Affective Information, 1765-1865
Chapter 8 William Bentley and the Ideal of Universal Information in the Enlightened Republic
Chapter 9 Choosing One's Fare: Northern Men in the 1840s
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
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Index
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Title: Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865 Richard D. Brown.
Author: Brown, Richard D
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Source Version: Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865 Richard D. Brown
Brown, Richard D
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01336
Subject Headings: • Communication -- United States -- History
• United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865
• United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
Notes: • Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-361) and index.
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