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Paper Trails
- The US Post and the Making of the American West
Engelsk Hardback
Paper Trails
- The US Post and the Making of the American West
Engelsk Hardback

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A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West.There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald''s restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era''s defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places.The postal network''s sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780190053673
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0190053674
Udg. Dato:
9 sep 2021
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
263mm
Højde:
186mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
9 sep 2021
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