'Knowledge is Power' Richard D. Brown (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Connecticut)

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'Knowledge is Power' by Richard D. Brown (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Connecticut)

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Brown here exlores America's first communications revolution--the revolution that made printed goods and public oratory widely available and, by means of the steamboat, railroad, and telegraph, sharply accelerated the pace at which information travelled.

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'Knowledge is Power': The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 by Richard D. Brown (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Connecticut)

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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There may be no better way to comprehend the deluge of daily information under which we exist than to turn the clock back to early America. Richard D Brown's analysis of information networks in New England and Tidewater Virginia provides the context that places our current information explosion in perspective. A professor of history at the University of Connecticut, Brown derives the bulk of his data from selected diaries, journals, and letters....The book is an immensely readable portrait of early Americans, the product of a writer in control of his material. it is a story of both the small and great, engaged in the formation and diffusion of information. Journalism Quarterly

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CIN0195072650LN

ISBN 13

9780195072655

ISBN 10

0195072650

Title

'Knowledge is Power': The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 by Richard D. Brown (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Connecticut)

Author

Richard D. Brown (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Connecticut)

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

1992-01-30

Number of pages

384

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins