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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

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 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

David A. Gerber

State University of New York, Buffalo


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