American Passage - The Communications Frontier in Early New England

"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.

About the author

Katherine Grandjean is Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College.

Summary

Katherine Grandjean shows that the English conquest of New England was not just a matter of consuming territory, of transforming woods into farms. It entailed a struggle to control the flow of information—who could travel where, what news could be sent, over which routes winding through the woods along the early American communications frontier.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Grandjean, Grandjean Katherine, Katherine Grandjean
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2015
• EAN: 9780674289918
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28991-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, History, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas