Wiring the world : the social and cultural creation of global telegraph networks /
'Wiring the World' is a cultural and social history that explores how the large Anglo-American cable companies won out over alternative visions. Bitter rivalries emerged over telegram prices, visions for world peace, scientific innovation, and the role of the nation-state. Such struggles d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The class of 1866
- Networking the Atlantic
- The battle for cable supremacy
- The imagined globe
- Weltcommunication
- The professionalization of the telegraph engineer
- Cable diplomacy and imperial control
- The wiring of the world
- Appendix: Actors of globalization
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
