Communication and empire : media, markets, and globalization, 1860-1930 / Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winseck, Dwayne Roy, 1964-

Contributor:

Pike, Robert M., 1937-

Series:

American encounters/global interactions.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telegraph, Wireless--History--19th century.

Telegraph, Wireless.

Telegraph, Wireless--History--20th century.

Telecommunication systems--Technological innovations--History--19th century.

Telecommunication systems.

Telecommunication systems--Technological innovations--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A history and political economy of global communication, showing how capitalism, multilateralism, modernization, and imperialism shaped the evolution of communication.

Contents:

Introduction : deep globalization and the global media in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth

Building the global communication infrastructure : brakes and accelerators on new communication technologies, 1850-70

From the Guilded Age to the Progressive Era : the struggle for control in the Euro-American and South American communication markets, 1870-1905

Indo-European communication markets and the scrambling of Africa : communication and empire in the "Age of Disorder"

Electronic kingdom and wired cities in the "Age of Disorder" : the struggle for control of China's national and global communication capabilities, 1870-1901

The politics of global media reform I, 1870-1905 : the early movements against private cable monopolies

The politics of global media reform II, 1906-16 : rivalry and managed competition in the age of empire(s) and social reform

Wireless, war, and communication networks, 1914-22

Thick and thin globalism : Wilson, the communication experts, and the American approach to global communications, 1918-22

Communication and informal empires : consortia and the evolution of South American and Asian communication markets, 1918-30

The Euro-American communication market and media merger mania : new technology and the political economy of communication in the 1920s

Conclusions : the moving forces of early global media.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-401) and index.

ISBN:

9786612923357

9781282923355

1282923358

9780822389996

0822389991

OCLC:

662677666