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Book Synopsis The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago by : Pearson Hill
Download or read book The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago written by Pearson Hill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the 1880s post office system through the eyes of Pearson and Rowland Hill. This classic work offers a historical view of communication systems, showcasing the evolution and challenges of a bygone era. A nostalgic journey into the past. It provides a window into the transformation of communication over the years.
Book Synopsis Neither Snow Nor Rain by : Devin Leonard
Download or read book Neither Snow Nor Rain written by Devin Leonard and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —USA Today Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing. In Neither Snow Nor Rain, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the fascinating, centuries-long history of the USPS, from the first letter carriers through Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the post office was molded into a vast patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over seventy percent of federal employees were postal workers. As the country boomed, USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroads and airmail service to mechanical sorting machines and optical character readers. Neither Snow Nor Rain is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system—and the country—to a halt in the 1970s. “Delectably readable . . . Leonard’s account offers surprises on almost every other page . . . [and] delivers both the triumphs and travails with clarity, wit and heart.” —Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago by : Canniff Haight
Download or read book Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago written by Canniff Haight and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago by Canniff Haight
Book Synopsis Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago by : Canniff Haight
Download or read book Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago written by Canniff Haight and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago" by Canniff Haight offers readers a captivating glimpse into rural Canadian life during the mid-19th century. Through vivid prose and detailed descriptions, Haight paints a rich portrait of the landscapes, customs, and challenges faced by early settlers in Canada. The book provides a nostalgic journey back in time, transporting readers to a simpler era characterized by close-knit communities, rustic homesteads, and the rhythms of agricultural life. Haight explores various aspects of daily existence, from the challenges of clearing land and building homes to the joys of harvesting crops and celebrating community events. With a keen eye for detail and a deep appreciation for the Canadian wilderness, Haight brings to life the sights, sounds, and smells of country living in a bygone era. He offers insights into the customs, traditions, and values that shaped the lives of early Canadian settlers, shedding light on their resourcefulness, resilience, and sense of community spirit.
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Book Synopsis The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical Study by : A. D. Smith
Download or read book The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical Study written by A. D. Smith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly review considers the history of postal services in England, the United States, Canada, Germany, and France from a cost point of view. It has detailed information on the costs and increases in letter post charges in these countries. There is also information on parcel post, newspaper post, and postal services for the blind.
Book Synopsis Information and the History of Philosophy by : Chris Meyns
Download or read book Information and the History of Philosophy written by Chris Meyns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now information’s philosophical history has been largely overlooked. Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical questions around information, including work from before the Common Era to the twenty-first century. It covers scientific and technology-centred notions of information, views of human information processing, as well as socio-political topics such as the control and use of information in societies. Organised into five parts, 19 chapters by an international team of contributors cover the following topics and more: Information before 500 CE, including ancient Chinese, Greek and Roman approaches to information; Early theories of information processing, sources of information and cognition; Information and computation in Leibniz, visualised scientific information, copyright and social reform; The nineteenth century, including biological information, knowledge economies and information’s role in empire and eugenics; Recent and contemporary philosophy of information, including racialised information, Shannon information and the very idea of an information revolution. Information and the History of Philosophy is a landmark publication in this emerging field. As such, it is essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, and library and information studies. It is also a valuable resource for those working in subjects such as the history of science, media and communication studies and intellectual history.
Download or read book Undelivered written by Philip F. Rubio and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal "wildcat" strike--the largest in United States history--for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire. Strikers defied court injunctions, threats of termination, and their own union leaders. In the negotiated aftermath, the U.S. Post Office became the U.S. Postal Service, and postal workers received full collective bargaining rights and wage increases, all the while continuing to fight for greater democracy within their unions. Using archives, periodicals, and oral histories, Philip Rubio shows how this strike, born of frustration and rising expectations and emerging as part of a larger 1960s-1970s global rank-and-file labor upsurge, transformed the post office and postal unions. It also led to fifty years of clashes between postal unions and management over wages, speedup, privatization, automation, and service. Rubio revives the 1970 strike story and connects it to today's postal financial crisis that threatens the future of a vital 245-year-old public communications institution and its labor unions.
Book Synopsis A Hundred Years by Post by : J. Wilson Hyde
Download or read book A Hundred Years by Post written by J. Wilson Hyde and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A Hundred Years by Post by J. Wilson Hyde
Book Synopsis The Postal System of the United States and the New York General Post Office by : Thomas C. Jefferies
Download or read book The Postal System of the United States and the New York General Post Office written by Thomas C. Jefferies and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Postal System of the United States and the New York General Post Office" by Thomas C. Jefferies. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book GPO written by E. T. Crutchley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1938 as part of the English Institutions series, this book contains a history of the General Post Office in the UK. Crutchley begins by examining the historic roots of the modern postal system, then goes on to describe how the post office fulfils its various roles in society in Britain and internationally, especially in the wake of the telephone and telegraph. The text is illustrated with a number of photographs showing postal infrastructure both past and present, and includes an analysis of philately. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the Royal Mail.
Download or read book Post Office written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Book Synopsis Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor by : Tom Colbert
Download or read book Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor written by Tom Colbert and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor, Tom Colbert, former chief of justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, shares his extraordinary life story—a story of resilience, determination, and hope. From his great-great grandmother who, though born into slavery, lived to be over 100 years old to his great grandfather who fought to be enrolled as a member of Creek Tribal Nation to his grandfather who walked over a mile home after being shot in the chest, never giving up no matter how hard the journey was instilled into Tom at a very young age. Born on December 30, 1949, Tom was raised by his mother and grandparents in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, when segregation laws were in effect. In fact, a few days after Tom was born, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher had just started her second semester as a law student at the University of Oklahoma Law School after fighting for three years to be admitted there, refusing to attend the makeshift “Black-only” law school set up in the basement of the State Capitol. Though racial segregation was deemed unconstitutional in 1954, integration was intentionally delayed in Tom’s town, and he didn’t attend an integrated school until the fall of 1965. Although some teachers at his high school were welcoming, many staff and students were not, and Tom and his friends experienced racism, bigotry, and hatred, despite being star athletes and diligent students. Though he grew up in poverty and a world entrenched in systemic racism as well as dealt with family tragedies, Tom beat impossible odds, proving the naysayers of his youth wrong. He not only worked hard and became an outstanding lawyer, but reached the pinnacle of judiciary—and became the first Black man in Oklahoma to do so. Just like Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Tom refused the “basement,” and that noble resistance led him all the way to the second floor of the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Book Synopsis Fifty Years' Reminiscences of New York; or, flowers from the garden of Laurie Todd: being a collection of fugitive pieces which appeared in the newspapers and periodicals of the day, etc by : Grant THORBURN
Download or read book Fifty Years' Reminiscences of New York; or, flowers from the garden of Laurie Todd: being a collection of fugitive pieces which appeared in the newspapers and periodicals of the day, etc written by Grant THORBURN and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Congressional Globe by : United States. Congress
Download or read book The Congressional Globe written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gena of the Appalachians by : Clarence Monroe Wallin
Download or read book Gena of the Appalachians written by Clarence Monroe Wallin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Serving a Wired World by : Katie Hindmarch-Watson
Download or read book Serving a Wired World written by Katie Hindmarch-Watson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new—the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally interconnected lives. But the pressures exerted on many of today’s communications tech workers mirror those of a much earlier generation of laborers in a very different space: the London workforce that helped launch and shape the massive telecommunications systems operating at the turn of the twentieth century. As the Victorian age ended, affluent Britons came to rely on information exchanged along telegraph and telephone wires for seamless communication: an efficient and impersonal mode of sharing thoughts, demands, and desires. This embrace of seemingly unmediated communication obscured the labor involved in the smooth operation of the network, much as our reliance on social media and app interfaces does today. Serving a Wired World is a history of information service work embedded in the daily maintenance of liberal Britain and the status quo in the early years of the twentieth century. As Katie Hindmarch-Watson shows, the administrators and engineers who crafted these telecommunications systems created networks according to conventional gender perceptions and social hierarchies, modeling the operation of the networks on the dynamic between master and servant. Despite attempts to render telegraphists and telephone operators invisible, these workers were quite aware of their crucial role in modern life, and they posed creative challenges to their marginalized status—from organizing labor strikes to participating in deviant sexual exchanges. In unexpected ways, these workers turned a flatly neutral telecommunications network into a revolutionary one, challenging the status quo in ways familiar today.
