Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks

by Simone M. Müller

The successful laying of a transatlantic cable in 1866 remade world communications. A message could travel across the ocean in minutes, shrinking the space between continents, cultures, and nations. An eclectic group of engineers, entrepreneurs, politicians, and media visionaries then developed this technology into a telecommunications system that spread a particular vision of civilization--but not everyone wanted to wire the world the same way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231174322
• ISBN13: 9780231174329
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher