America calling : a social history of the telephone to 1940 /

The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology--how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral historie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer, Claude S., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992.
Temas:
Telephone > Social aspects > United States > History.
Téléphone > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Telephone > Social aspects.
Sozialgeschichte
Telefon
Telefonie.
Sociale aspecten.
Comunicacao de massa.
Telefonia.
Télécommunications > Aspect social.
United States.
USA
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Technology and modern life
  • Telephone in America
  • Educating the public
  • Telephone spreads : national patterns
  • Telephone spreads : local patterns
  • Becoming commonplace
  • Local attachment, 1890-1940
  • Personal calls, personal meanings.

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