Connecting the nineteenth-century world : the telegraph and globalization / / Roland Wenzlhuemer

• Autore: Wenzlhuemer Roland
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 384.109/034
• Soggetto topico: Telegraph - History - 19th century; Telegraph - Social aspects - History - 19th century; Globalization - History - 19th century; Technological innovations - Social aspects - History - 19th century; Telecommunication systems - History - 19th century; Social networks - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Telegraph and Globalization -- The Technological History of Telegraphy -- Telegraphy in Context -- The Global Telegraph Network -- Global Centres and Peripheries -- The British Telegraph Network -- The British Indian Telegraph Network -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: By the end of the nineteenth century the global telegraph network had connected all continents and brought distant people into direct communication 'at the speed of thought' for the first time. Roland Wenzlhuemer here examines the links between the development of the telegraph and the paths of globalization, and the ways in which global spaces were transformed by this technological advance. His groundbreaking approach combines cultural studies with social science methodology, including evidence based on historical GIS mapping, to shed new light on both the structural conditions of the global telegraph network and the historical agency of its users. The book reveals what it meant for people to be telegraphically connected or unconnected, how people engaged with the technology, how the use of telegraphy affected communication itself and, ultimately, whether faster communication alone can explain the central role that telegraphy occupied in nineteenth-century globalization.
• Titolo autorizzato: Connecting the nineteenth-century world
• ISBN: 1-139-79422-1; 1-139-88924-9; 1-139-77683-5; 1-139-78286-X; 1-139-77987-7; 1-139-17798-2; 1-139-78379-3; 1-283-74648-4; 1-139-77835-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966315703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II