The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945

by Daniel R. Headrick

Book Overview

A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of peace, the telegraph and radio were, as many predicted, instruments of peace; in times of tension, they became instruments of politics, tools for rival...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195062736
• ISBN13: 9780195062731
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"