Global Communications Since 1844 Geopolitics and Technology

Name: Global Communications Since 1844 Geopolitics and Technology
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ISBN: 9780801860744

ISBN-10: 0801860741

ISBN-13: 9780801860744

Edition: 1999

Authors: Peter J. Hugill

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In World Trade since 1431, Peter Hugill showed how the interplay of technology and geography guided the evolution of the modern global capitalistic system. Now, in the successor to that widely acclaimed book, Hugill shifts the focus to telecommunications, once again demonstrating that those nations that best developed and marketed new technologies were the nations that rose to world power. Beginning with the advent of the telegraph in the 1840s, Hugill shows how each major change in transportation and communications technologies brought about a corresponding transformation from one world economy to another. British advances in international telegraphy after the American Civil War, for…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/9/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



Information Technology, Geopolitics, and the World-System



Telegraphy and the First Global Telecommunications Hegemony



"The Whole World Kin": Telephony and the Development of the Continental Polity to 1956



Radio Telegraphy, Radio Telephony, and Interstate Competition, 1896-1917



Challenges to British Telecommunications Hegemony: Continuous Wave Wireless



Military Uses of Radio Communication: The Development of Communications, Command, and Control



Communications, Command, and Control in the War in the Air: Radar, World War II, and the Slow Transition to American Power



Telecommunications and World-System Theory


Glossary


References


Name Index


Subject Index