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• Title:Communication and empire : media, markets, and globalization, 1860-1930 / Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike.
  
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• Author/Creator:Winseck, Dwayne Roy, 1964-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Pike, Robert M., 1937-
  
• Published/Created:Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TK5711 .W56 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Telegraph, Wireless--History--19th century.
  Telegraph, Wireless--History--20th century.
  Telecommunication systems--Technological innovations--History--19th century.
  Telecommunication systems--Technological innovations--History--20th century.
  
• Description:xx, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:American encounters/global interactions.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-401) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780822339120 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0822339129 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780822339281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0822339285 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction : deep globalization and the global media in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth
  1. Building the global communication infrastructure : brakes and accelerators on new communication technologies, 1850-70
  2. From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era : the struggle for control in the Euro-American and South American communication markets, 1870-1905
  3. Indo-European communication markets and the scrambling of Africa : communication and empire in the "age of disorder"
  4. Electronic kingdom and wired cities in the "age of disorder" : the struggle for control of China's national and global communication capabilities, 1870-1901
  5. politics of global media reform I, 1870-1905 : the early movements against private cable monopolies
  6. politics of global media reform II, 1906-16 : rivalry and managed competition in the age of empire(s) and social reform
  7. Wireless, war, and communication networks, 1914-22
  8. Thick and thin globalism : Wilson, the communication experts, and the American approach to global communication, 1918-22
  9. Communication and informal empires : consortia and the evolution of South American and Asian communication markets, 1918-30
  10. Euro-American communication market and media merger mania : new technology and the political economy of communication in the 1920s
  Conclusions : the moving forces of the early global media.