Network Nation
Inventing American Telecommunications
Published on 1. September 2010
528 pages
978-0-674-05652-7 (ISBN)
Description
Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05652-7 (9780674056527)
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05/2010
The Belknap Press
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Person
Richard R. John is Professor of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.
Content
Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction: Inventing AmericanTelecommunications 1. Making a Neighborhood of a Nation 2. Professor Morse's Lightning 3. Antimonopoly 4. The New Postalic Dispensation 5. Rich Man's Mail 6. The Talking Telegraph 7. Telephomania 8. Second Nature 9. Gray Wolves 10. Universal Service 11. One Great Medium? Epilogue: The Technical Millennium Chronology of American Telecommunications Notes Acknowledgments Index
