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Informed Power - Communication in the Early American South (Hardcover)
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Informed Power - Communication in the Early American South (Hardcover)
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Informed Power maps the intricate, intersecting channels of
information exchange in the early American South, exploring how
people in the colonial world came into possession of vital
knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a
printing press until the 1730s. Challenging the notion of early
colonial America as an uninformed backwater, Alejandra Dubcovsky
uncovers the ingenious ways its inhabitants acquired timely news
through largely oral networks. Information circulated through the
region via spies, scouts, traders, missionaries, and other ad hoc
couriers-and by encounters of sheer chance with hunting parties,
shipwrecked sailors, captured soldiers, or fugitive slaves. For
many, content was often inseparable from the paths taken and the
alliances involved in acquiring it. The different and innovative
ways that Indians, Africans, and Europeans struggled to make sense
of their world created communication networks that linked together
peoples who otherwise shared no consensus of the physical and
political boundaries shaping their lives. Exchanging information
was not simply about having the most up-to-date news or the
quickest messenger. It was a way of establishing and maintaining
relationships, of articulating values and enforcing priorities-a
process inextricably tied to the region's social and geopolitical
realities. At the heart of Dubcovsky's study are important lessons
about the nexus of information and power in the early American
South.
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