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This unusual history focuses not only on those who advanced transatlantic cable communication, but also on those who harbored alternative ideas. They might seem peripheral, but such struggles determined the growth of cable technology, which in turn influenced world history. Filled with fascinating characters and new insight into defining events, this book recognizes globalization's diverse paths and close ties to business and politics.
Wiring the World is a cultural and social history that explores how the large Anglo-American cable companies won out over alternative visions. Through telegram prices, visions for world peace, scientific innovation, and the role of the nation-state, Simone M. Müller traces globalization's diverse paths and close ties to business and politics.
A valuable and illuminating analysis.
An excellent resource for communications history. Highly recommended.
Richard R. John, author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications:By reconstructing the social networks that linked nineteenth-century British, German, and American North Atlantic telegraph promoters, Wiring the World provides us with a wealth of intriguing and sometimes startling insights into the cultural significance of the Atlantic cable—one of the most iconic technological innovations of the age.
Emily S. Rosenberg, editor of A World Connecting, 1870-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2012):Wiring the World is a story not only of technical and entrepreneurial achievement but of imperial rivalry, the rise of professions, complex cultural interactions, far-reaching social changes, and a remapping of the meaning of maritime space. Focusing on one of the major developments of the communications revolution—the linking together of much of the world with submarine cable lines in the era before World War I—Simone M. Müller's carefully crafted study contributes significantly to the history and theory of globalization.
Pascal Griset, Sorbonne:Based on a clear knowledge of the state of the art, while adopting a solid methodology and robust concepts, Müller is able to provide a fresh history of the development of telegraph networks during the nineteenth century in a truly global perspective.
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