Wiring the World
The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks
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2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-17432-9 (ISBN)
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-17432-9 (ISBN)
Wiring the World is a cultural and social history that explores how the large Anglo-American cable companies won out over alternative visions. Through telegram prices, visions for world peace, scientific innovation, and the role of the nation-state, Simone M. Müller traces globalization's diverse paths and close ties to business and politics.
The successful laying of a transatlantic cable in 1866 remade world communications. A message could travel across the ocean in minutes, shrinking the space between continents, cultures, and nations. An eclectic group of engineers, entrepreneurs, politicians, and media visionaries then developed this technology into a telecommunications system that spread a particular vision of civilization-but not everyone wanted to wire the world the same way. Wiring the World is a cultural and social history that explores how the large Anglo-American cable companies won out over alternative visions. Bitter rivalries emerged over telegram prices, visions for world peace, scientific innovation, and the role of the nation-state. Such struggles determined the growth of cable technology, which in turn influenced world history. Filled with fascinating characters and new insights into pivotal events, Wiring the World traces globalization's diverse paths and close ties to business and politics.
The successful laying of a transatlantic cable in 1866 remade world communications. A message could travel across the ocean in minutes, shrinking the space between continents, cultures, and nations. An eclectic group of engineers, entrepreneurs, politicians, and media visionaries then developed this technology into a telecommunications system that spread a particular vision of civilization-but not everyone wanted to wire the world the same way. Wiring the World is a cultural and social history that explores how the large Anglo-American cable companies won out over alternative visions. Bitter rivalries emerged over telegram prices, visions for world peace, scientific innovation, and the role of the nation-state. Such struggles determined the growth of cable technology, which in turn influenced world history. Filled with fascinating characters and new insights into pivotal events, Wiring the World traces globalization's diverse paths and close ties to business and politics.
Simone M. Muller is Project Director & Principal Investigator at DFG-Emmy Noether Research Group "Hazardous Travels. Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy" at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Class of 1866 1. Networking the Atlantic 2. The Battle for Cable Supremacy 3. The Imagined Globe 4. Weltcommunication 5. The Professionalization of the Telegraph Engineer 6. Cable Diplomacy and Imperial Control 7. The Wiring of the World Appendix: Actors of Globalization Notes Bibliography Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.05.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Columbia Studies in International and Global History |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 figures |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-231-17432-2 / 0231174322 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-17432-9 / 9780231174329 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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