Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865

Author(s)

• Brown, Richard D.

Bibliographic Information

Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865

Richard D. Brown

Produced by Amazon, c1989

• : pbk

Note

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press , 1991, c1989

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1991"--t.p. verso

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

One of the leading scholars dealing with early communication history in America, Richard Brown discusses how information moved through eighteenth and nineteenth-century American society, principally through the expansion of the printed word and its change from the property of the learned and wealthy into a mass-audience market.

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Details

• NCID: BC14844020
• ISBN:
  • 0195072650
• Country Code: ja
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Japan]
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 372 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P92.U5
  • DC20 : 302.2/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Communication -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
  • LCSH : United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865