Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865
"Important contribution to our understanding."--American Literary History"Interesting and exceptionally well-designed book pioneers the study of information circulation, sharing, and usage among Americans between 1700 and 1865. Imaginatively organized."--Journal of the Early Republic"An extraordinary achievement....A major contribution to our understanding of cultural transmission is the brilliant, almost novelistic, intensity with which Brown has imagined and re-created the individual lives of the men and women he has studied."--New England Quarterly"Well-written, provocative, and informative."--Church History"Really an insightful collection of case studies showing how-in pre-mass media days, information got around....There is a good deal of insight here which meshes well with studies of early media diffusion."--Communication Booknotes