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Author: Catherine J Golden
Edition: First
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00AIEDM44

Posting It

Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Get Posting It literature books for free.
Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts.Golden demonstrates how cheap postage--which was quickly adopted in other countries--led to a postal "network" that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to b Check Posting It our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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