Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865Oxford University Press, 05/09/1991 - 372 من الصفحات Brown here explores America's first communications revolution--the revolution that made printed goods and public oratory widely available and, by means of the steamboat, railroad and telegraph, sharply accelerated the pace at which information travelled. He describes the day-to-day experiences of dozens of men and women, and in the process illuminates the social dimensions of this profound, far-reaching transformation. Brown begins in Massachusetts and Virginia in the early 18th century, when public information was the precious possession of the wealthy, learned, and powerful, who used it to reinforce political order and cultural unity. Employing diaries and letters to trace how information moved through society during seven generations, he explains that by the Civil War era, cultural unity had become a thing of the past. Assisted by advanced technology and an expanding economy, Americans had created a pluralistic information marketplace in which all forms of public communication--print, oratory, and public meetings--were competing for the attention of free men and women. Knowledge is Power provides fresh insights into the foundations of American pluralism and deepens our perspective on the character of public communications in the United States. |
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... merchants and to raise revenue through fees for the English government . Postal rates were so high that ordinary people seldom used the post office , preferring instead to call on friends and acquain- tances to carry letters whenever ...
... merchants and to raise revenue through fees for the English government . Postal rates were so high that ordinary people seldom used the post office , preferring instead to call on friends and acquain- tances to carry letters whenever ...
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... merchants , law- yers , and an artisan — will be explored . Experiences among the two largest classes of Americans , farmers and women , supply further comparisons of people whose primary interests were domestic and for whom public ...
... merchants , law- yers , and an artisan — will be explored . Experiences among the two largest classes of Americans , farmers and women , supply further comparisons of people whose primary interests were domestic and for whom public ...
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... merchants and officials who looked less and less to the sermons and lectures of the clergy for guidance , and more and more to each other and to England . The newspapers they patronized — there were now three , the most of any provin ...
... merchants and officials who looked less and less to the sermons and lectures of the clergy for guidance , and more and more to each other and to England . The newspapers they patronized — there were now three , the most of any provin ...
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... merchants and royal officials who organized the town's economy and social hierarchy determined the public agenda . Their information requirements and preferences had assumed preeminence in Bos- ton , shaping diffusion in ways that were ...
... merchants and royal officials who organized the town's economy and social hierarchy determined the public agenda . Their information requirements and preferences had assumed preeminence in Bos- ton , shaping diffusion in ways that were ...
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... merchant and colony mint - master John Hull . With his wife's dowry and his father - in - law's patronage , a ... merchants in London and Bristol in England , Bilbao in Spain , and with others in Bermuda and the Caribbean , Sewall ...
... merchant and colony mint - master John Hull . With his wife's dowry and his father - in - law's patronage , a ... merchants in London and Bristol in England , Bilbao in Spain , and with others in Bermuda and the Caribbean , Sewall ...
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2 William Byrd II and the Challenge of Rusticity Among the Tidewater Gentry | 42 |
3 Rural Clergymen and the Communication Networks of 18thCentury New England | 65 |
The Early Careers of Robert Treat Paine and John Adams 17491774 | 82 |
Information Diffusion in Northern Ports from the 1760s to the 1790s | 110 |
The Experiences of Yankee Farmers 17111830 | 132 |
Domestic Roles and the Mastery of Affective Information 17651865 | 160 |
8 William Bentley and the Ideal of Universal Information in the Enlightened Republic | 197 |
Northern Men in the 1840s | 218 |
The Battles of Lexington and Concord George Washingtons Death and the Assassination of President Lincoln 17751865 | 245 |
Conclusion | 268 |
Appendix | 297 |
Notes | 303 |
Index | 363 |
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18th century activities affairs American Antiquarian Society Ballard became Bentley's Bernard Bailyn Boston Bowen Calvin Fletcher Cambridge Carpenter church circle clergy clergymen Colonial communication Connecticut conversation cosmopolitan County daughters Diary diffusion of information early elite England English experience face-to-face farm farmers Fletcher genteel gentlemen gentry Guion Harvard Hempstead Historical Society History Ibid information diffusion information networks Isaac Mickle John Adams Journal July knowledge lawyers learned letters literacy London Lucy Breckinridge Martha Ballard Mary Mass Massachusetts merchants neighbors newspapers novels papers parish Parker pattern Philadelphia political printed Pynchon reading religious reports republic republican Revolution Revolutionary Robert Treat Paine role rural Salem Samuel Samuel Sewall Sanger Sarah Hill Sept sermons Sewall Sewall's social Tidewater tion Virginia visited Washington Weaver William Bentley William Byrd William Byrd II William Pynchon women word-of-mouth York
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الصفحة 132 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and...
الصفحة 47 - I have a large family of my own, and my doors are open to every body, yet I have no bills to pay, and half-a-Crown will rest undisturbed in my pocket for many moons together. Like one of the patriarchs...
الصفحة 92 - Pratt ; of Mr. Adams, as he is unknown to your honors, it is necessary to say that he has lived between two and three years with Mr. Putnam of Worcester, has a good character from him and all others who know him, and that he was with me the other day several hours, and I take it, he is qualified to study the law by his scholarship, and that he has made a very considerable, a very great proficiency in the principles of the law, and therefore, that the client's interest may be safely intrusted in his...
الصفحة 57 - They live in the same neat manner, dress after the same modes, and behave themselves exactly as the gentry in London; most families of any note having a coach, chariot, berlin, or chaise.
الصفحة 62 - For example, if you should travel through this Colony, with a well-confirmed testimonial of your having finished with Credit a Course of studies at Nassau-Hall; you would be rated, without any more questions asked, either about your family, your Estate, your business, or your intention, at 10,000 £; and you might come, & go, & converse, & keep company, according to this value; & you would be dispised & slighted if yo(u) rated yourself a farthing cheaper.
الصفحة 359 - The Female World of Love and Ritual : Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1, no.
الصفحة 253 - Not content with shooting down the unarmed, aged and infirm, they disregarded the cries of the wounded, killing them without mercy, and mangling their bodies in the most shocking manner.
الصفحة 20 - ... to take the blame and shame of it; asking pardon of men, and especially desiring prayers that God, who has an unlimited authority, would pardon that sin...