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Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network

byLydia Pyne

Although postcards are usually associated with cheeky seaside tableaus and banal holiday pleasantries, they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. Using archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, Postcards moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Postcards within history, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Postcards emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Reaktion Books, Limited

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

256

ISBN

9781789144840