Global communications since 1844 : geopolitics and technology
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Global communications since 1844 : geopolitics and technology
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
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- : pbk.
Available at 16 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-267) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk. ISBN 9780801860393
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
- Volume
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: pbk. ISBN 9780801860744
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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