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Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications

Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications
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Author:
Richard R. John
Publisher:
Belknap Press
Release Date:
2010
ISBN-10:
067402429X
ISBN-13:
9780674024298

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About Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications

The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a…

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