How the post office created America : a history
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New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
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326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Downtown Lansing - 2nd Floor-Non-Fiction
383.4973 Gallagher
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383.4973 Gallagher
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
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Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index.
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"The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then 'the media'—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life." --publisher's website
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gallagher, W. (2016). How the post office created America: a history . Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gallagher, Winifred. 2016. How the Post Office Created America: A History. Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gallagher, Winifred. How the Post Office Created America: A History Penguin Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gallagher, Winifred. How the Post Office Created America: A History Penguin Press, 2016.
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