The people's network : the political economy of the telephone in the Gilded Age /

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The People's Network reconstructs the story of U.S. and Canadian independent telephone companies which challenged the Bell System's market domination in the twentieth century, linking the fight to control telecommunications to dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacDougall, Robert, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:American business, politics, and society.
Subjects:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company > History.
Bell Canada > History.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Canada
1900-1999
Telephone > United States > History > 20th century.
Telephone > Canada > History > 20th century.
Telephone companies > United States > History > 20th century.
Telephone companies > Canada > History > 20th century.
Telephone > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Telephone > Government policy > Canada > History > 20th century.
Entreprises de téléphone > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Téléphone > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Téléphone > Politique gouvernementale > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Telephone
Telephone companies
Telephone > Government policy
Canada
United States
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. A Fight with an Octopus
  • Chapter 1. All Telephones Are Local
  • Chapter 2. Visions of Telephony
  • Chapter 3. Unnatural Monopoly
  • Chapter 4. The Independent Alternative
  • Chapter 5. The Politics of Scale
  • Chapter 6. The System Gospel
  • Conclusion. Return to Middletown
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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