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Cables, Crises, and the Press : The Geopolitics of the New Information System in the Americas, 1866-1903 /
In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises. This book reveals an interesting parallel in the late nineteenth century, when a new communications system based on advances in submarine cable technology and newspaper printing brought information t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Main Themes and Organization of the Book; 1: Introduction to the New International Information System; 2: Building the International Cable System; 3: Raising False Hopes: International Communications and International Crises in Latin America, 1866-1881; 4: War, Diplomacy, and Propaganda: Chilean-U.S. Relations, 1866-1880s; 5: European Intrusions, Domestic Disorder, and U.S. Armed Intervention: Central America in the 1880s; 6: Confrontation via the Information System: Chile and the United States, 1889-1892.
- 7: Popularization of the Imperial Mentality: From Border Crisis to Hemispheric Hegemony8: Propaganda, Public Uproar, and the Threat of War: The United States, Great Britain, and the Venezuelan Boundary Controversy; 9: Information Flow and Revolution: Cuba, Spain, and the United States; 10: Diplomacy Under Stress: Washington, Havana, and Madrid; 11: Information Flow, the U.S. Press, and the War with Spain; 12: The Panama Conspiracy; 13: Celebrations of Heroism and Power; Conclusion: The Ominous Triumph of Popular Culture; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.