Wiring the world : the social and cultural creation of global telegraph networks /
Müller, Simone M.,
Wiring the world : the social and cultural creation of global telegraph networks / Simone M. Müller. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations. - Columbia studies in international and global history .
Based on author's thesis (PdD - Freie Universität Berlin, 2012) issued under title: The class of 1866 and the wiring of the world.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The class of 1866 -- Networking the Atlantic -- The battle for cable supremacy -- The imagined globe -- Weltcommunication -- The professionalization of the telegraph engineer -- Cable diplomacy and imperial control -- The wiring of the world -- Appendix: Actors of globalization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780231540261
Telegraph--History.
Transatlantic cables.
Telegraph--Economic aspects.
Electronic Books.
HE7631 / .W575 2016
Wiring the world : the social and cultural creation of global telegraph networks / Simone M. Müller. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations. - Columbia studies in international and global history .
Based on author's thesis (PdD - Freie Universität Berlin, 2012) issued under title: The class of 1866 and the wiring of the world.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The class of 1866 -- Networking the Atlantic -- The battle for cable supremacy -- The imagined globe -- Weltcommunication -- The professionalization of the telegraph engineer -- Cable diplomacy and imperial control -- The wiring of the world -- Appendix: Actors of globalization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780231540261
Telegraph--History.
Transatlantic cables.
Telegraph--Economic aspects.
Electronic Books.
HE7631 / .W575 2016