News in the mail : the press, post office, and public information, 1700-1860s
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News in the mail : the press, post office, and public information, 1700-1860s
（Contributions in American history, no. 138）
Greenwood Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p. [185]-201
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Until telegraph lines spanned the continent in the 1860s, the post office and the press worked together as the most important mechanism for distributing news and public information. Public policy linked these complementary communication agencies; the post office provided free and low-cost news-gathering services for the press as well as subsidized delivery of publications to readers. News in the Mail charts the relationship between the press and post office from colonial times through the Civil War. The book explains why the federal government underwrote the circulation of printed matter and how the postal policies governing public information reflected the cultural tensions of the early and mid-nineteenth century.
News in the Mail not only looks at the government's role in disseminating news and promoting communication, but also examines the structure and implications of the early U.S. communication system. This book is a valuable source for those interested in journalism, communications history, the history of federal policies and operations, postal history, and nineteenth-century American social history.
目次
Preface
The Press, Post Office, and American Development
The Common Descent of the Colonial Post Office and Press
The First U.S. Postal Policy and the Press
The Cultural Politics of Newspaper Mails in the Age of Jackson
Antebellum Experiments with Newspaper Postal Policy
Antebellum Postal Operations and the Availability of News
Magazines, Books, and the Problem of Formats
News Gathering by Mail
Speeding the News by Postal Express
News in the Mail
Bibliography
Index
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