Author: Merchants' Association of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
I: Opposing Government Ownership and Operation of Public Utilities. II: Advocating Exclusive Regulation of All Railroads by the Federal Government. November, 1916
Author: Merchants' Association of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Analysis of the Electric Railway Problem
Author: Delos Franklin Wilcox
Publisher: New York : The Author
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher: New York : The Author
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Crossed Wires
Author: Dan Schiller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197639259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled US imperialism through a a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications. Three other key findings wind through the book. First, business users of networks--more than carriers, and certainly more than residential users--have repeatedly determined how telecommunications systems have developed. Second, despite their current importance for virtually every sphere of social life, networks have been consecrated above all to aiding the circulation of commodities. Finally, although the preferences of executives and officials have broadly determined outcomes, these elites have repeatedly had to contend against the ideas and organizations of workers, social movement activists, and other reformers. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of US telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative--and contested--political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197639259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled US imperialism through a a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications. Three other key findings wind through the book. First, business users of networks--more than carriers, and certainly more than residential users--have repeatedly determined how telecommunications systems have developed. Second, despite their current importance for virtually every sphere of social life, networks have been consecrated above all to aiding the circulation of commodities. Finally, although the preferences of executives and officials have broadly determined outcomes, these elites have repeatedly had to contend against the ideas and organizations of workers, social movement activists, and other reformers. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of US telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative--and contested--political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.
Principles and Problems of Government
Author: Charles Grove Haines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers
List of References on the Conflict of State and Federal Regulation of Railroads
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Bi-monthly Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers
Brief of Arguments Against Public Ownership
Author: American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description