In My Power : : Letter Writing and Communications in Early America / / Konstantin Dierks.
In My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United States. In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a...
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Dierks, Konstantin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut In My Power : Letter Writing and Communications in Early America / Konstantin Dierks. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2009 1 online resource (376 p.) : 20 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Early American Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Communications and Empire -- Chapter 2. Letter Writing and Commercial Revolution -- Chapter 3. Migration and Empire -- Chapter 4. Letter Writing and Consumer Revolution -- Chapter 5. Revolution and War -- Chapter 6. Universalism and the Epistolary Divide -- Conclusion -- Afterword: The Burden of Early American History -- Abbreviations and Archival Sources -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United States. In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world.Everyday letter writing demonstrated that the blessings of success in the early modern world could come less from the control of overt political power than from the cultivation of social skills that assured the middle class of their technical credentials, moral deserving, and social innocence. In writing letters, the middle class not only took effective action in a turbulent world but also defined what they believed themselves to be able to do in that world. Because this ideology of agency was extended to women and the youngest of children in the eighteenth century, it could be presented as universalized even as it was withheld from Native Americans and enslaved blacks.Whatever the explicit purposes behind letter writing may have been-educational improvement, family connection, business enterprise-the effect was to render the full terms of social division invisible both to those who accumulated power and to those who did not. The uncontested power that came from letter writing was, Konstantin Dierks provocatively argues, as important as racist violence to the rise of the white middle class in the British Atlantic world. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) American letters 18th century History and criticism. American letters History and criticism. Letter writing United States History 18th century. American Studies. HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). bisacsh American History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History 9783110413496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812221817 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201758 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812201758 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812201758/original |
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