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Laddar... Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865av Richard D. Brown
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This work discusses how information and viewpoints on current affairs spread through word of mouth, newspapers and books in 18th and 19th century America. It also shows how an individual's efforts and motivations to assemble information were in some cases influenced by social status and gender. The author has studied the diaries of about 20-30 individuals and provides a pretty comprehensive analysis of the information that seemed to have interested each diary-keeper and how they had acquired it. This highly individualized research perspective is interesting, but I was expecting broader conclusions than the ones the author now comes up with. At least some of the information diffusion phenomena he describes in this book were probably quite unique either to America or the British colonial empire, so some kind of contrast to information diffusion in other places (ruled by autocratic monarchies, for example?) would have made the conclusions more striking. But that is of course a lot to ask. This book also contains an interesting chapter about how news of certain key events (Lexington and Concord, George Washington's death and Lincoln's assassination) spread through the land. It was a shame that this chapter was not longer. Nevertheless, despite its limitations I enjoyed reading the book and it can be recommended to readers who are interested in this subject. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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 traveled. 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 Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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