Global Communications Since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology

by Peter J. Hugill

Book Overview

In World Trade since 1431, Peter Hugill showed how the interplay of technology and geography guided the evolution of the modern global capitalistic system. Now, in the successor to that widely acclaimed book, Hugill shifts the focus to telecommunications, once again demonstrating that those nations that best developed and marketed new technologies were the nations that rose to world power. Beginning with the advent of the telegraph in the 1840s, Hugill...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801860393
• ISBN13: 9780801860393
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher