Informed Power

Alejandra Dubcovsky is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.

Joshua Piker, College of William & Mary:
Dubcovsky’s wonderful first book puts information networks at the center of early Southern history. The result is a persuasive, far-reaching, and utterly absorbing reinterpretation of the region’s development and its people’s experiences of power.

Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California:
Alejandra Dubcovsky offers a nuanced interpretation of the ways in which early Americans communicated. She is a master of the primary source evidence and employs her keen analytic abilities to reveal not only that knowledge was power in this early modern world but how it circulated and whom it benefited. A groundbreaking work.