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The people's network : the political economy of the telephone in the Gilded Age / Robert MacDougall.
LIBRA TK6023 .M25 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacDougall, Robert, 1971-
- Series:
- American business, politics, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telephone--United States--History--20th century.
- Telephone.
- Telephone--Canada--History--20th century.
- Telephone companies--United States--History--20th century.
- Telephone companies.
- Telephone companies--Canada--History--20th century.
- Telephone--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Telephone--Government policy--Canada--History--20th century.
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company--History.
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
- History.
- Bell Canada--History.
- Bell Canada.
- Telephone--Government policy.
- Canada.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 All Telephones Are Local 19
- Chapter 2 Visions of Telephony 61
- Chapter 3 Unnatural Monopoly 92
- Chapter 4 The Independent Alternative 132
- Chapter 5 The Politics of Scale 174
- Chapter 6 The System Gospel 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812245691
- 0812245695
- OCLC:
- 842880502
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