Author: W. R. GRAYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Young Clerk's Instructor and Counting-House Companion. With Some Information Respecting Government Appointments, Etc
Author: W. R. GRAYThe Juvenile instructor and companion
Author: Young peopleTHE BOOKSELLER
Author: Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: In My Power
Author: Konstantin DierksPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812201758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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.
The Athenaeum
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.