UID:
almafu_9959677626002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (452 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-92335-8
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0-8223-8999-1
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9786612923357
Serie:
American encounters/global interactions
Inhalt:
A history and political economy of global communication, showing how capitalism, multilateralism, modernization, and imperialism shaped the evolution of communication.
Anmerkung:
Description based on print version record
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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.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-3912-9
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-3928-5
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Technik
DOI:
10.1515/9780822389996
