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Under the Wire : How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical StudiesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041554
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Under the WireDDC classification:
  • 327.2/09/034
LOC classification:
  • HE7631
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Control -- 1. The Anglo-American Crisis of 1812 -- 2. Diplomatic Autonomy and Telecommunications -- II. Speed -- 3. The Trent Affair -- 4. Speed and Diplomacy -- 5. Diplomatic Time -- III. The Medium -- 6. The Zimmermann Telegram -- 7. Technical and Economic Factors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Through case studies in crisis diplomacy--the War of 1812, the Trent affair during the U.S. Civil War, and the famous 1917 Zimmermann telegram--Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Control -- 1. The Anglo-American Crisis of 1812 -- 2. Diplomatic Autonomy and Telecommunications -- II. Speed -- 3. The Trent Affair -- 4. Speed and Diplomacy -- 5. Diplomatic Time -- III. The Medium -- 6. The Zimmermann Telegram -- 7. Technical and Economic Factors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Through case studies in crisis diplomacy--the War of 1812, the Trent affair during the U.S. Civil War, and the famous 1917 Zimmermann telegram--Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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