@inbook{fbcbf6d44222439699ac19ee0883ca6e,
title = "The Business of Letter-Writing",
abstract = "All basic histories of the United States report that some time in the third decade of the nineteenth century, the nation{\textquoteright}s aggregate wealth began to register dramatic gains. A growing inventory of commodities were being shipped in increasing volume, and at decreasing cost, to a growing number of continental and transatlantic destinations, turning the country itself into {\textquoteleft}but one extended [sales] counter from Maine to Texas,{\textquoteright} as Hunt{\textquoteright}s Merchant{\textquoteright}s Magazine soon quipped.¹ Interlocking divisions of globalizing labor upended local exchange networks between neighbors and transformed the republic into an integrated market of overlapping trade triangles.",
author = "Michael Zakim",
year = "2016",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
isbn = "9780748692927",
series = "Edinburgh companions to literature",
publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
pages = "46--61",
editor = "Celeste-Marie Bernier and Judie Newman and Matthew Pethers",
booktitle = "The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing",
address = "بريطانيا",
}