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Global Communication Electric: Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy (Volume 15) (Global History) - Softcover
As catalysts of our present global condition, telegraphs are emblems of modernity. The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and patterns of interaction on a global scale. World politics and a global economy only became possible with the creation of “global communication electric.”
This book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections―"Inter|Nationalisms," "Agents|Actors," "Use|News," and "Space|Time"―that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy. In exploring the varied uses of telegraphy, real or imagined, Global Communication Electric expands the notion of the telegraph as a globalizing medium: of connection as well as friction; of political, social, and economic entanglement as well as disentanglement; and of crossing as well as creating distance in space and time.
This book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections―"Inter|Nationalisms," "Agents|Actors," "Use|News," and "Space|Time"―that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy. In exploring the varied uses of telegraphy, real or imagined, Global Communication Electric expands the notion of the telegraph as a globalizing medium: of connection as well as friction; of political, social, and economic entanglement as well as disentanglement; and of crossing as well as creating distance in space and time.
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M. Michaela Hampf is professor of North American history in the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She is coeditor, most recently, with Maryann Snyder-Körber of Machine: Bodies, Genders, Technologies. Simone Müller-Pohl is assistant professor of North American history at the University of Freiburg. She has published widely on the actor networks driving global communication.
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“Heralding the era of globalization, telegraphy as a medium of networked communication reimagined structures of power and patterns of interaction in the mid-nineteenth century. Hampf and Müller-Pohl bring together thirteen contributors to sift the implications of this one-time new media technology. . . . As a global history, the book’s major contribution is offering a critical reconsideration of standard narratives of telegraphy as the ‘Victorian Internet,’ a weapon of empire, and an abolisher of temporal-spatial constraints to argue instead for a more nuanced (and ultimately less Euro-American-centric) interpretation of the role of telegraphy in the nineteenth century. . . . Recommended.” (R. Avance, University of Pennsylvania Choice)
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- PublisherCampus Verlag
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 3593399539
- ISBN 13 9783593399539
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages386
- EditorHampf M. Michaela, Müller-Pohl Simone
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