Research Catalog

Title

More than words : readings in transport, communication and the history of postal communication / edited by John Willis.

Publication

Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Willis, John, 1954-
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Canadian Postal Museum.

Description

xi, 369 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia, through ethnographic and archival research conducted on Bali"--

Series Statement

• Paper / Canadian Postal Museum ; 5
• Mercury series

Uniform Title

• Mercury series
• Paper (Canadian Postal Museum) ; no. 5.

Alternative Title

Readings in transport, communication and the history of postal communication

Subject

• Postal service > Canada > History
• Postal service > United States > History
• Letter writing > Canada > History
• Communication and traffic > Canada > History
• Letter writing > United States > History
• Written communication > Social aspects > Canada
• Letter writing

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text chiefly in English; includes some articles in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Réseau de communications postales durant le régime français: le réseau officiel / Bernard Allaire -- "Agitators of the worst type" : riot and occupation at the Vancouver post office, 1938 / Duncan Stacey -- One hundred years of postal processing in Canada / Krista Cooke -- September 11, 2001 : collecting and exhibiting a national tragedy / Nancy A. Pope -- Testing the boundaries of postal enterprise in the U.S. free-market economy, 1880-1920 / Richard Kielbowicz -- History and geography of the post office on Prince Edward Island, 1870-1914 / John Willis -- Une industrie de la plume d'oie : les pennes de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson / Bianca Gendreau -- Sous le sceau du secret -- correspondance chiffrée en Nouvelle-France pendant la guerre de Sept Ans / Nicole Castéran -- S'écrire au XIX siècle en France -- Histoire d'une acculturation / Cecile Dauphin-Memeteau et Danièle Poublan -- "From a fine pen much art and fancy flows" : letter writing and gentility in early New England / Sheila McIntyre -- Immigrant experience and the creation of a transatlantic epistolary space : a case study / Yves Frenette and Gabriele Scardellato -- Vie familiale d'un administrateur colonial : Herman Witsius Ryland / Lorraine Gadoury -- Liaisons épistolaires illégitimes entre l'abbé Casgrain et l'Irlandaise Kate E. Godley / Manon Brunet -- Correspondance d'un immigrant français au Canada au début du XX siècle / Marguerite Sauriol -- Wartime correspondence : living, loving, and leaving through letters during the two World Wars / Liz Turcotte -- Timeless experience? Perceptions of two educated German immigrants to the United States, 1863 to 1996 / Susanne C. Knoblauch -- Instructions from Terra Nova : aspects of communication in the Sixteenth-Century Fishery / Brad Loewen -- Filière morutière normano-bretonne : Capitaines et habitants pêcheurs de l'île Scatarie (1714-1754) / Jean-Pierre Chrestien -- Distant shore : steamer mail to and from gold-rush California / Marianne Babal -- "Living, moving pageant" : the CBC's coverage of the Royal Tour of 1939 / Mary Vipond -- Transporter le Canada à l'étranger : les militaires canadiens à travers le monde, de 1945 à 1975 / Jean Martin.

ISBN

• 9780660196961
• 0660196964

LCCN

^^2008371175

OCLC

• 86005295
• SCSB-12516864

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library