Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on June 21, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(3):749-751; doi:10.1093/es/khm054
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David M. Henkin. The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
David M. Henkin. The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. ISBN 0-226-32720-5, $38.00 (cloth)
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David Henkin is a student of the development of popular literacy and mass communications in the nineteenth century. His first book, City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York (1998), is a highly original, intriguing study of the ways in which a broad array of ubiquitous, ordinary public texts (newspapers; paper currency; handbills; outdoor signage) were experienced by New Yorkers of different social groups and degrees of literacy. The present study extends the author's
State University of New York, Buffalo