Wenzlhuemer, Roland.

Connecting the nineteenth-century world the telegraph and globalization / [electronic resource] : Roland Wenzlhuemer. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - xvi, 339 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Telegraph and Globalization -- The Technological History of Telegraphy -- Telegraphy in Context -- The Global Telegraph Network -- Global Centres and Peripheries -- The British Telegraph Network -- The British Indian Telegraph Network -- Conclusion.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Telegraph--History--19th century.
Telegraph--Social aspects--History--19th century.
Globalization--History--19th century.
Technological innovations--Social aspects--History--19th century.
Telecommunication systems--History--19th century.
Social networks--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

HE7631 / .W46 2013eb

384.109/034