 | The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World Subjects: Letter writing -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Letter writing -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; English letters -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; English letters -- Great Britain -- Hi; By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter , Lindsay O'Neill argues that the British became an early networking society, relying on letters to maintaining necessary social networks that British global expansion and mobility threatened to disconnect. Lindsay O'Neill teaches in the Department of History at the University of Southern California. |
