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Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918
Volume I: Reforming the Mails
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Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918
Volume I: Reforming the Mails
About this book
This volume focuses on the development of mail services between ca. 1780 and 1860. It takes as its starting point John Palmer's proposal to reform the mail coach system in the 1780s. As part of this volume, the following themes and subjects are covered:
- Mail services prior to the introduction of the penny post, including the rise and fall of the mail coach; correspondence and surveillance during the Napoleonic wars; the emergence of local penny posts; and debates about the franking privileges of Members of Parliament.
- Campaigns for and against the introduction of Rowland Hill's scheme for penny postage between 1837 and 1840.
- Cultural responses to, and repercussions of, the introduction of the penny post in 1840.
- The 1844 letter opening scandal.
- The development of mail infrastructure from 1840 onward, including the development of rural post routes and the use of the railways for the conveyance of the mail.
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Yes, you can access Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918 by Karin Koehler,Nicola Kirkby,Kathleen McIlvenna,Eleanor Hopkins,Ellen Smith,Harriet Thompson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Geschichte & Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Geschichte des 19. JahrhundertsTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- General Introduction
- Volume I Introduction
- Part 1 Mail Coaches: From Novelty to Nostalgia
- Part 2 The Post Office Before Reform
- Part 3 Calls for Reform
- Part 4 Debating Universal Penny Postage
- Part 5 Responding to Reform
- Part 6 Surveillance and Privacy
- Part 7 Seeing the State at Work: Infrastructures of Reform in Material and Print Culture
- Bibliography
- Index