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American Passage

The Communications Frontier in Early New England

Katherine Grandjean

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$41.00 • £35.95 • €37.95

ISBN 9780674289918

Publication Date: 01/05/2015

320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 halftones, 4 maps, 1 table

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Katherine Grandjean is Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College.

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Read a Boston Globe interview with Katherine Grandjean about early European colonists’ engagement of Native American couriers to send messages over long distances
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