Crossed wires : the conflicted history of US telecommunications, from the post office to the Internet /
"During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US ter...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1 Antimonopoly
- Introduction: A Missing History
- 1. Paths into an Imperial Republic: Posts and Telegraphs
- 2. Antimonopoly, in the Country and the City
- 3. Business Realignment, Federal Intervention, Class Confrontation
- 4. Reactivating Reform
- 5. Telegraph Workers in Depression and War
- 6. The Punishing Passage to Telephone Unionism
- 7. Consumption and Public Utility
- 8. Patents under Pressure, 1920s-1950s
- 9. Activists and Dissidents: The 1960s
- 10. Innovation, Dissensus, and Reaction from Above
- 11. Telecommunications and American Empire