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Hardcover:
9780071032711 | Harvard Business School Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $30.00
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9780071032728 | Harvard Business School Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offers managers advice on the practical problems of handling professionals, looks at the differences between the corporate and professional cultures, and suggests ways to reduce conflicts
In the seven decades from its establishment in 1775 to the commercialization of the electric telegraph in 1844, the American postal system spurred a communications revolution no less far-reaching than the subsequent revolutions associated with the telegraph, telephone, and computer. This book tells the story of that revolution and the challenge it posed for American business, politics, and cultural life. During the early republic, the postal system was widely hailed as one of the most important institutions of the day. No other institution had the capacity to transmit such a large volume of information on a regular basis over such an enormous geographical expanse. The stagecoaches and postriders who conveyed the mail were virtually synonymous with speed. In the United States, the unimpeded transmission of information has long been hailed as a positive good. In few other countries has informational mobility been such a cherished ideal. Richard John shows how postal policy can help explain this state of affairs. He discusses its influence on the development of such information-intensive institutions as the national market, the voluntary association, and the mass party. He traces its consequences for ordinary Americans, including women, blacks, and the poor. In a broader sense, he shows how the postal system worked to create a national society out of a loose union of confederated states. This exploration of the role of the postal system in American public life provides a fresh perspective not only on an important but neglected chapter in American history, but also on the origins of some of the most distinctive features of American life today. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780674833388 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In the seven decades from its establishment in 1775 to the commercialization of the electric telegraph in 1844, the American postal system spurred a communications revolution no less far-reaching than the subsequent revolutions associated with the telegraph, telephone, and computer.
Paperback:
9780674833425 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, November 15, 1998), cover price $44.00
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9780271028972 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, May 30, 2006, cover price $27.95
9780091607319, titled "Seventeenth-Century Poetry: The Social Context" | Hutchinson Educational, July 1, 1985, cover price $11.95 | also contains Seventeenth-Century Poetry: The Social Context
By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
Hardcover:
9781848931152 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, July 30, 2012, cover price $620.00
9781138757783, titled "The American Postal Network 1792-1914" | Routledge, January 1, 2012, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
9781138757769, titled "The American Postal Network 1792-1914" | Routledge, January 1, 2012, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
9781138757776, titled "The American Postal Network 1792-1914" | Routledge, January 1, 2012, cover price $170.00
9781138757752, titled "The American Postal Network 1792-1914" | Routledge, January 1, 2012, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
Hardcover:
9781935623427 | Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, December 2, 2014, cover price $29.95
Hardcover:
9780674024298 | Belknap Pr, May 21, 2010, cover price $45.50
Paperback:
9780674088139 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 5, 2015), cover price $23.95
Hardcover:
9780812248821 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 26, 2016, cover price $55.00
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