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Communication and Empire : Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930 /

Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of nat...

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Autores principales: Winseck, Dwayne R. (Autor), Pike, Robert M. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Joseph, Gilbert M. (Editor ), Rosenberg, Emily S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2007]
Colección:American encounters/global interactions : 39
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • About the Series
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Deep Globalization and the Global Media in the Late Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth
  • 1 Building the Global Communication Infrastructure: Brakes and Accelerators on New Communication Technologies, 1850-70
  • 2 From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era: The Struggle for Control in the Euro-American and South American Communication Markets, 1870-1905
  • 3 Indo-European Communication Markets and the Scrambling of Africa: Communication and Empire in the ''Age of Disorder''
  • 4 Electronic Kingdom and Wired Cities in the ''Age of Disorder'': The Struggle for Control of China's National and Global Communication Capabilities, 1870-1901
  • 5 The Politics of Global Media Reform I, 1870-1905: The Early Movements against Private Cable Monopolies
  • 6 The Politics of Global Media Reform II, 1906-16: Rivalry and Managed Competition in the Age of Empire(s) and Social Reform
  • 7 Wireless, War, and Communication Networks, 1914-22
  • 8 Thick and Thin Globalism: Wilson, the Communication Experts, and the American Approach to Global Communication, 1918-22
  • 9 Communication and Informal Empires: Consortia and the Evolution of South American and Asian Communication Markets, 1918-30
  • 10 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 the Early Global Media
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index