TY  - BOOK
AU  - John,Richard R.
TI  - Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications
SN  - 9780674056527
AV  - TK5102 
U1  - 384 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Telecommunication-United States-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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