TY - BOOK

AU - Müller, Simone M.

TI - Wiring the world the social and cultural creation of global telegraph networks

PB - Columbia University Press

SN - 9780231174329

SN - 0231174322

KW - Telegraph History

KW - Transatlantic cables

KW - Telegraph Economic aspects

KW - Telegrafie

KW - Hochschulschrift

KW - Geschichte

PY - [2016]

N2 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-354) and index

N2 - AcknowledgementsIntroduction: actors of globalization and the wiring of the world -- Atlantic beginnings : the class of 1866 and the formation of "telegraphic" networks -- Come to wire the world : world economy and the battle for Atlantic cable supremacy -- The imagined globe : of the electric union, universal peace and the "great civilizer" -- Weltcommunication : economic intelligence, global news and "social messaging" -- The world's telegraphic knowledge and the professionalization of the telegraph engineer -- The politics of the world's electric nerves : strategic nationalism, cable diplomacy, and imperial control -- Conclusion: the class of 1866 and globalization -- Appendix: the actors' biographies -- Bibliography.

BT - Columbia studies in international and global history

CY - New York

UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2

ER -