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100	1		_aDubcovsky, Alejandra, _d1983- _e1
245	1	0	_aInformed power : _bcommunication in the early American South / _cAlejandra Dubcovsky.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource (287 pages) : _billustrations, maps
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505	0	0	_tWhat: Making sense of La Florida, 1560s-1670s -- _tPaths and power -- _tInformation contests -- _tRebellious news -- _tWho: The many faces of information, 1660s-1710s -- _tInformers and slaves -- _tThe information race -- _tHow: New ways of articulating power, 1710-1740 -- _tNetworks in wartime -- _tDissonant connections.
520	0		_aInformed Power maps the intricate, intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the colonial world came into possession of vital knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system of a printing press until the 1730s. Challenging the notion of early colonial America as an uninformed backwater, Alejandra Dubcovsky uncovers the ingenious ways its inhabitants acquired timely news through largely oral networks. Information circulated through the region via spies, scouts, traders, missionaries, and other ad hoc couriers - and by encounters of sheer chance with hunting parties, ship-wrecked sailors, captured soldiers, or fugitive slaves. For many, content was often inseparable from the paths taken and the alliances involved in acquiring it. The different and innovative ways that Indians, Africans, and Europeans struggled to make sense of their world created communication networks that linked together peoples who otherwise shared no consensus of the physical and political boundaries shaping their lives. Exchanging information was not simply about having the most up-to-date news or the quickest messenger. It was a way of establishing and maintaining relationships, of articulating values and enforcing priorities - a process inextricably tied to the region's social and geopolitical realities. At the heart of Dubcovsky's study are important lessons about the nexus of information and power in the early American South. --
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650		0	_aCommunication _zSouthern States _xHistory.
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences) _zSouthern States _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell