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The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America

David M. Henkin

★★★★☆

Review:

A really interesting look at not just how the antebellum postal system worked, but how it affected American urban culture, and what mail meant to people.

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  • Finished: 2010
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