Geographer Alan Pred had a great book about the telegraph and shipping
news
Pred, Alan (1973). Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The
United States System of Cities, 1790-1840. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Barry Wellman
A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head
Step by step, link by link, putting it together
Streisand/Sondheim
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
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Not an internet question, but maybe people are familiar enough with
communications technology to give some pointers:
I've gotten REALLY into communications infrastructure history recently.
There's a ton documented on World War 1 and 2, but less on the American
Civil War. I'm looking specifically for documentation of non-war
communication tools: less about war participants and more about ordinary
people's communication patterns (letters, telegraph, photography,
newspapers, etc.). Namely, what was an American before and during the Civil
War doing to learn about the state of the nation? Does anyone have any good
sources to look at?
Thanks!
Alex
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