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The Postal Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

The Postal Age

Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving world of telecommunications. This fascinating history traces these shifts from their beginnings in the mid-1800s, when cheaper postage, mass literacy, and migration combined to make the long-established postal service a more integral and viable part of everyday life. With ...

The Letters of The Younger Pliny
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

The Letters of The Younger Pliny

The Letters of Pliny the Younger, also known as the Epistles of Pliny the Younger, have been studied for centuries, as they offer a unique and intimate glimpse into the daily life of Romans in the 1st century AD. Through his letters, the Roman writer and lawyer Pliny the Younger (whose full name was Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) discusses philosophical and moral issues; but he also talks about everyday matters and topics related to his administrative duties. One of these letters, Letter 16 from Book VI, addressed to Tacitus, holds unparalleled historical value. In it, Pliny describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which destroyed the city of Pompeii. Many scholars claim that wi...

Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan; Or, The Mogul Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan; Or, The Mogul Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1788
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Whole Works
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 578

The Whole Works

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1823
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 654

The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1818
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1818
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Contains "verbatim reports of Debates at the East-India house, taken in shorthand for these pages". -- cf. v. 1, p. iii.

Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594
The New Monthly Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516

The New Monthly Magazine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1858
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1845
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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