The networked wilderness [electronic resource] : communicating in early New England / Matt Cohen.
In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen examines communications systems in early New England and finds that, surprisingly, struggles over information technology were as important as theology, guns, germs, or steel in shaping the early colonization of North America. Colonists in New England have gene...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota Press,
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| Summary: | In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen examines communications systems in early New England and finds that, surprisingly, struggles over information technology were as important as theology, guns, germs, or steel in shaping the early colonization of North America. Colonists in New England have generally been viewed as immersed in a Protestant culture of piety and alphabetic literacy. At the same time, many scholars have insisted that the culture of the Indigenous peoples of the region was a predominantly oral culture. But what if, Cohen posits, we thought about media and technology beyond the. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816670499 0816670498 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |