Wiring the Nation: Telecommunication, Newspaper-Reportage, and Nation Building in British India, 1850-1930

by Michael Mann

News today is understood as the most recent information available from places all over the world. It was the telegraph which gave birth to this understanding by profoundly transforming the global press landscape at the turn of the nineteenth century. Select information bought from agencies like Reuters, Wolff, Havas, and Associated Press made their way into newspapers--'news' became a commodity and journalism as we know it was born.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199472173
• ISBN13: 9780199472178
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"