Robert MacDougall

The People's Network

The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The People's Network reconstructs the story of U.S. and Canadian independent telephone companies which challenged the Bell System's market domination in the twentieth century, linking the fight to control telecommunications to dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity, local versus centralized power.

Produktdetails

• American Business, Politics, and Society
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9780812245691
• ISBN-10: 0812245695
• Artikelnr.: 38128226

Autorenporträt

Robert MacDougall is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Centre for American Studies at Western University in London, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. A Fight with an Octopus
Chapter 1. All Telephones Are Local
Chapter 2. Visions of Telephony
Chapter 3. Unnatural Monopoly
Chapter 4. The Independent Alternative
Chapter 5. The Politics of Scale
Chapter 6. The System Gospel
Conclusion. Return to Middletown
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments