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- catalog abstract "Until telegraph lines spanned the continent in the 1860s, the post office and the press worked together as the most important mechanism for distributing news and public information. Public policy linked these complementary communication agencies; the post office provided free and low-cost news-gathering services for the press as well as subsidized delivery of publications to readers. News in the Mail charts the relationship between the press and post office from colonial times through the Civil War. The book explains why the federal government underwrote the circulation of printed matter and how the postal policies governing public information reflected the cultural tensions of the early and mid-nineteenth century. News in the Mail not only looks at the government's role in disseminating news and promoting communication, but also examines the structure and implications of the early U.S. communication system. This book is a valuable source for those interested in journalism, communications history, the history of federal policies and operations, postal history, and nineteenth-century American social history [Publisher description]".
- catalog contributor b2664890.
- catalog created "1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1989.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [185]-201.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Press, post office, and American development -- Common descent of the Colonial post office and press -- First U.S. postal policy and the press -- Cultural politics of newspaper mails in the age of Jackson -- Antebellum experiments with Newspaper postal policy -- Antebellum postal operations and the vailability of news -- Magazines, books, and the problem of formats -- News gathering by mail -- Speeding the news by postal express -- News in the mail -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Until telegraph lines spanned the continent in the 1860s, the post office and the press worked together as the most important mechanism for distributing news and public information. Public policy linked these complementary communication agencies; the post office provided free and low-cost news-gathering services for the press as well as subsidized delivery of publications to readers. News in the Mail charts the relationship between the press and post office from colonial times through the Civil War. The book explains why the federal government underwrote the circulation of printed matter and how the postal policies governing public information reflected the cultural tensions of the early and mid-nineteenth century. News in the Mail not only looks at the government's role in disseminating news and promoting communication, but also examines the structure and implications of the early U.S. communication system. This book is a valuable source for those interested in journalism, communications history, the history of federal policies and operations, postal history, and nineteenth-century American social history [Publisher description]".
- catalog extent "xii, 209 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "News in the mail.".
- catalog identifier "0313266387 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "News in the mail.".
- catalog isPartOf "Contributions in American history, 0084-9219 ; no. 138".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York ; Greenwood Press,".
- catalog relation "News in the mail.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "302.23/2/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Journalism Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "News agencies Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "PN4888.S6 K54 1989".
- catalog subject "Postal service United States History.".
- catalog subject "Postal service United States Second-class matter History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Press, post office, and American development -- Common descent of the Colonial post office and press -- First U.S. postal policy and the press -- Cultural politics of newspaper mails in the age of Jackson -- Antebellum experiments with Newspaper postal policy -- Antebellum postal operations and the vailability of news -- Magazines, books, and the problem of formats -- News gathering by mail -- Speeding the news by postal express -- News in the mail -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "News in the mail : the press, Post Office, and public information, 1700-1860s / Richard B. Kielbowicz.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".