"A constitutional conveyance of intelligence, public and private": The post office, the business of printing, and the American revolution

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 709-752

  Adelman, Joseph M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1093/es/khq079     Document Type: Article

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