000962527 000__ 02049nam\a2200409\i\4500 000962527 001__ 962527 000962527 005__ 20210515061738.0 000962527 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000962527 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000962527 008__ 210309s2021\\\\nyua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000962527 020__ $$a9780197550069 $$q(electronic book) 000962527 035__ $$a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002483648 000962527 040__ $$aStDuBDS$$beng$$cStDuBDS$$erda$$epn 000962527 050_0 $$aHE6376.A1$$bW476 2021 000962527 08204 $$a383.497809034$$223 000962527 1001_ $$aBlevins, Cameron,$$eauthor. 000962527 24510 $$aPaper trails :$$bthe US Post and the making of the American West /$$cCameron Blevins. 000962527 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2021. 000962527 300__ $$a1 online resource (248 pages) :$$billustrations. 000962527 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000962527 336__ $$astill image$$2rdacontent 000962527 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000962527 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000962527 4901_ $$aOxford scholarship online 000962527 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000962527 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000962527 5208_ $$aThere were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. 000962527 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 10, 2021). 000962527 650_0 $$aPostal service$$zWest (U.S.)$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000962527 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xTerritorial expansion. 000962527 651_0 $$aWest (U.S.)$$xHistory. 000962527 655_0 $$aElectronic books 000962527 77608 $$iPrint version:$$z9780190053673 000962527 830_0 $$aOxford scholarship online. 000962527 85280 $$bebk$$hOxford Scholarship Online 000962527 85640 $$3Oxford scholarship online$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190053673.001.0001$$zOnline Access 000962527 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:962527$$pGLOBAL_SET 000962527 980__ $$aEBOOK 000962527 980__ $$aBIB 000962527 982__ $$aEbook 000962527 983__ $$aOnline