Urban growth and the circulation of information: the United States system of cities, 1790-1840 /
This book analyzes how information circulated before the telegraph. Using newspapers and their contents, postal services, the volume of commodity trade, and travel patterns to analyze information circulation, the author describes the interrelationships among the large cities during the period from 1...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Text in English. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
1973.
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| Series: | Harvard studies in urban history.
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| Summary: | This book analyzes how information circulated before the telegraph. Using newspapers and their contents, postal services, the volume of commodity trade, and travel patterns to analyze information circulation, the author describes the interrelationships among the large cities during the period from 1790 to 1840. His principal concern, however, is with general urban-growth and locational processes. Developments between 1790 and 1840 are studied in order to understand the growth process of all systems of cities, both past and present. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 348 pages : illustrations (black-&-white), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674930908 |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Middlesex -- Cambridge. |