Global Communication Electric

Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy

AvM. Michaela Hampf,Simone Muller-Pohl

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and patterns of interaction on a global scale. World politics and a global economy only became possible with the creation of "global communication electric." This book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections-"Inter|Nationalisms," "Agents|Actors," "Use|News," and "Space|Time" - that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy. In exploring the varied uses of telegraphy, real or imagined, Global Communication Electric expands the notion of the telegraph as a globalizing medium: of connection as well as friction; of political, social, and economic entanglement as well as disentanglement; and of crossing as well as creating distance in space and time.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-06-27
Mått:14 x 21 x 3 mm
Vikt:482 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global History Series
Antal sidor:386
Förlag:Campus Verlag
ISBN:9783593399539

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M. Michaela Hampf is professor of North American history in the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin. She is coeditor, most recently, of Machine: Bodies, Genders, Technologies. Simone Muller-Pohl is assistant professor of North American history at the University of Freiburg.