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- Introduction
- 1. Pretelegraphic Information Circulation: A Prelude
- The Speed of Information Flows
- Spatial Biases in Information Availability
- 2. The Long-Distance Flow of Information through Newspapers
- Types and Functions of Information Carried
- Spatial Biases in the Availability of European Information
- Spatial Biases in the Availability of Domestic Information
- 3. Postal Services and Long-Distance Information Flows
- Expansion, Postage Rates, and Clientele
- Route Development and Regional Variations
- Urban Concentration of Postal Activity
- The Concentration of Foreign Mail in New York
- 4. Interurban Commodity Flows and Long-Distance Information Circulation
- Long-Distance Domestic Trade
- Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports
- Interior River and Lake Ports
- 5. Interurban Travel Flows and Long-Distance Information Circulation
- Interurban Travel Costs
- Clientele of Interurban Common Carriers
- Interurban Travel Volumes
- Interurban Travel Times
- 6. An Urban-System Interpretation of the Growth of Large Cities
- Urban Systems and Subsystems
- A Submodel of Urban-Size Growth fro the Mercantile City
- A Model of Large-City Rank Stability for the Urban System and Three Subsystems
- Large-City Interdependence and Innovation Diffusion
- 7. Pretelegraphic Patterns of Interurban Innovation Diffusion
- Banking
- Horse-Drawn Omnibuses and Intraurban Street Railways
- The Cholera Epidemic of 1832
- The Suspension of Specie Payments During the Panic of 1837
- Daily Newspapers and the Penny Press
- Steam Engines
- Other Interurban Diffusion Processes
- The Locational Pattern of Inventions
- Immigration and Foreign Travel
- Variations in Business Attitudes and Behavior
- 8. Modern Policy Ramifications
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
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