The Struggle for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century

by Jill Hills

Tracing the development of communication markets and the regulation of international communications from the 1840s through World War I, Jill Hills examines the political, technological, and economic forces at work during the formative century of global communication.

Hills analyzes power relations within the arena of global communications from the inception of the telegraph through the successive technologies of submarine telegraph cables,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252027574
• ISBN13: 9780252027574
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 8.8"