John, Richard R. <br/><br/>
Network Nation :  Inventing American Telecommunications. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (529 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674056527 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Telecommunication-United States-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TK5102 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>384