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Informed Power
Communication in the Early American South
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Alejandra Dubcovsky
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power.
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Dubcovsky Alejandra :
Alejandra Dubcovsky is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.
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Alan Taylor, University of Virginia:
In the flow of messages and information across cultural boundaries, Dubcovsky casts native and colonial relations in a revealing new light.
In the flow of messages and information across cultural boundaries, Dubcovsky casts native and colonial relations in a revealing new light.
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.
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Map: The early South
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Introduction
1 - Part I: What. Making Sense of La Florida, 1560s–1670s
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1. Paths and Power
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2. Information Contests
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3. Rebellious News
68 - Part II: Who. The Many Faces of Information, 1660s–1710s
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4. Informers and Slaves
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5. The Information Race
128 - Part III. How. New Ways of Articulating Power, 1710–1740
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6. Networks in Wartime
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7. Dissonant Connections
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 4, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780674968783
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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304
Other:
11 halftones, 4 maps
eBook ISBN:
9780674968783
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Professional and scholarly;
