TY - CHAP
T1 - The Business of Letter-Writing
AU - Zakim, Michael
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - All basic histories of the United States report that some time in the third decade of the nineteenth century, the nation’s aggregate wealth began to register dramatic gains. A growing inventory of commodities were being shipped in increasing volume, and at decreasing cost, to a growing number of continental and transatlantic destinations, turning the country itself into ‘but one extended [sales] counter from Maine to Texas,’ as Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine soon quipped.¹ Interlocking divisions of globalizing labor upended local exchange networks between neighbors and transformed the republic into an integrated market of overlapping trade triangles.
AB - All basic histories of the United States report that some time in the third decade of the nineteenth century, the nation’s aggregate wealth began to register dramatic gains. A growing inventory of commodities were being shipped in increasing volume, and at decreasing cost, to a growing number of continental and transatlantic destinations, turning the country itself into ‘but one extended [sales] counter from Maine to Texas,’ as Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine soon quipped.¹ Interlocking divisions of globalizing labor upended local exchange networks between neighbors and transformed the republic into an integrated market of overlapping trade triangles.
UR - https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-nineteenth-century-american-letters-and-letter-writing.html
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AN - SCOPUS:85031681307
SN - 9780748692927
SN - 9781399508865
SN - 0748692924
T3 - Edinburgh companions to literature
SP - 46
EP - 61
BT - The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
A2 - Bernier, Celeste-Marie
A2 - Newman, Judie
A2 - Pethers, Matthew
PB - Edinburgh University Press
CY - Edinburgh
ER -