商品簡介
"We know surprisingly little about how news and information traveled in early America. No postal service existed. Earliest America published no newspapers. Not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of letters, travelers, rumors, and movement. Unearthing that hidden world, the early American 'communications frontier,' this book retells the story of English colonization. It invites readers into a different colonial New England, less orderly and more precarious than the quiet Puritan villages of popular imagination, a darker place entirely"--Provided by publisher.
