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Telecom nation : telecommunications, computers, and governments in Canada / Laurence B. Mussio.
Lippincott Library HE7815 .M87 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mussio, Laurence B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telecommunication policy--Canada.
- Telecommunication policy.
- Computer networks--Government policy.
- Computer networks.
- Canada.
- Computer networks--Government policy--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- x, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Technological Imperative
- 1 From Golden Age to Iron Cage: Telecommunications Regulation and the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, 1945-1966 13
- 2 Connecting Canada to the World: International Telecommunications Policy, 1942-1966 47
- 3 Canadians and Computers: Initial Canadian Responses to the Computer, 1948-1968 70
- 4 Revolution and Reaction: Telecommunications Policy, 1960-1969 89
- Part 2 System Overload
- 5 Collapse and Surrender: Telecommunications Regulation and the Canadian Transport Commission, 1967-1975 117
- 6 The Politics of Technological Development: Canada, 1970-1975 154
- 7 "Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?": Ottawa and the First Information Highway, 1969-1975 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773521755 :
- OCLC:
- 44943622
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