Global communications since 1844 : geopolitics and technology

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Global communications since 1844 : geopolitics and technology

Peter J. Hugill

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

  • : hbk.
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-267) and indexes

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: hbk. ISBN 9780801860393

内容説明

In "World Trade Since 1431", Peter Hugill sought to show how the interplay of technology and geography guided the evolution of the modern global capitalistic system. In the successor to this book, he shifts the focus to telecommunications, demonstrating that those nations that best developed and marketed new technologies were the nations that rose to world power. Beginning with the advent of the telegraph in the 1840s, the account shows how each major change in transportation and communications technologies brought about a corresponding transformation from one world economy to another. British advances in international telegraphy after the American Civil War, for example, kept that nation just ahead of the USA in the communications race, a position it held until 1945. Hugill explains how such developments as aerial bombardment of cities in World War I spurred the development of radio and, ultimately, radar. He also traces the steps that led to the British surrender of world hegemony to the USA at the end of World War II.

目次

List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Information Technology, Geopolitics, and the World-System Chapter 2. Telegraphy and the First Global Telecommunications Hegemony Chapter 3. "The Whole World Kin": Telephony and the Development of the Continental Polity to 1956 Chapter 4. Radio Telegraphy, Radio Telephony, and Interstate Competition, 1896-1917 Chapter 5. Challenges to British Telecommunications Hegemony: Continuous Wave Wireless Chapter 6. Military Uses of Radio Communication: The Development of Communications, Command, and Control Chapter 7. Communications, Command, and Control in the War in the Air: Radar, World War II, and the Slow Transition to American Power Chapter 8. Telecommunications and World-System Theory Glossary References Name Index Subject Index
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780801860744

内容説明

In World Trade since 1431, Peter Hugill showed how the interplay of technology and geography guided the evolution of the modern global capitalistic system. Now, in the successor to that widely acclaimed book, Hugill shifts the focus to telecommunications, once again demonstrating that those nations that best developed and marketed new technologies were the nations that rose to world power. Beginning with the advent of the telegraph in the 1840s, Hugill shows how each major change in transportation and communications technologies brought about a corresponding transformation from one world economy to another. British advances in international telegraphy after the American Civil War, for example, kept that nation just ahead of the United States in the communications race, a position it held until 1945. Hugill explains how such developments as aerial bombardment of cities in World War I spurred the development of radio and, ultimately, radar. He also traces the steps that led to the British surrender of world hegemony to the United States at the end of World War II.

目次

List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Information Technology, Geopolitics, and the World-System Chapter 2. Telegraphy and the First Global Telecommunications Hegemony Chapter 3. "The Whole World Kin": Telephony and the Development of the Continental Polity to 1956 Chapter 4. Radio Telegraphy, Radio Telephony, and Interstate Competition, 1896-1917 Chapter 5. Challenges to British Telecommunications Hegemony: Continuous Wave Wireless Chapter 6. Military Uses of Radio Communication: The Development of Communications, Command, and Control Chapter 7. Communications, Command, and Control in the War in the Air: Radar, World War II, and the Slow Transition to American Power Chapter 8. Telecommunications and World-System Theory Glossary References Name Index Subject Index

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