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Network Nation : Inventing American Telecommunications.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (529 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674056527
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Network NationDDC classification:
  • 384
LOC classification:
  • TK5102
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Introduction: Inventing American Telecommunications -- Chapter 1. Making a Neighborhood of a Nation -- Chapter 2. Professor Morse's Lightning -- Chapter 3. Antimonopoly -- Chapter 4. The New Postalic Dispensation -- Chapter 5. Rich Man's Mail -- Chapter 6. The Talking Telegraph -- Chapter 7. Telephomania -- Chapter 8. Second Nature -- Chapter 9. Gray Wolves -- Chapter 10. Universal Service -- Chapter 11. One Great Medium? -- Epilogue: The Technical Millennium -- Chronology of American Telecommunications -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Introduction: Inventing American Telecommunications -- Chapter 1. Making a Neighborhood of a Nation -- Chapter 2. Professor Morse's Lightning -- Chapter 3. Antimonopoly -- Chapter 4. The New Postalic Dispensation -- Chapter 5. Rich Man's Mail -- Chapter 6. The Talking Telegraph -- Chapter 7. Telephomania -- Chapter 8. Second Nature -- Chapter 9. Gray Wolves -- Chapter 10. Universal Service -- Chapter 11. One Great Medium? -- Epilogue: The Technical Millennium -- Chronology of American Telecommunications -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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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