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| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1 | Information and Authority in Samuel Sewall's Boston, 1676-1729 | 16 |
| 2 | William Byrd II and the Challenge of Rusticity Among the Tidewater Gentry | 42 |
| 3 | Rural Clergymen and the Communication Networks of 18th-Century New England | 65 |
| 4 | Lawyers, Public Office, and Communication Patterns in Provincial Massachusetts: The Early Careers of Robert Treat Paine and John Adams, 1749-1774 | 82 |
| 5 | Communications and Commerce: Information Diffusion in Northern Ports from the 1760s to the 1790s | 110 |
| 6 | Information and Insularity: The Experiences of Yankee Farmers, 1711-1830 | 132 |
| 7 | Daughters, Wives, Mothers: Domestic Roles and the Mastery of Affective Information, 1765-1865 | 160 |
| 8 | William Bentley and the Ideal of Universal Information in the Englightened Republic | 197 |
| 9 | Choosing One's Fare: Northern Men in the 1840s | 218 |
| 10 | The Dynamics of Contagious Diffusion: The Battles of Lexington and Concord, George Washington's Death, and the Assassination of President Lincoln, 1775-1865 | 245 |
| Conclusion | 268 | |
| Appendix | 297 | |
| Notes | 303 | |
| Index | 363 |
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Bonita Rothschild
reviewed Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 on November 13, 2018
Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865
Eye opening. Books like this show the power of history and the damage patriotic jingoism can have on perspective even after the event has long past. Jack Nicholson's quote from the Two Jakes sums up the author's point nicely: "the past never goes away."
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