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Crossed wires : the conflicted history of US telecommunications, from the post office to the Internet / Dan Schiller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schiller, Dan, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telecommunication--United States--History.
- Telecommunication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (833 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of telecommunications argues that business, economic, and regulatory concerns influenced the evolution of this industry far more than the technology.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Schiller, Dan Crossed Wires
- ISBN:
- 0-19-763926-7
- 0-19-763924-0
- 0-19-763925-9
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