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Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications

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Description for Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications Paperback. "Network Nation" places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HB; KJ; KNT; LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674088139
SKU
V9780674088139
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About Richard R. John
Richard R. John is Professor of History at Columbia University.

Reviews for Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications
This is a valuable book on the technological and economic trends that impacted the popularization of the telephone, one of the most profoundly significant inventions in the record of humanity. To understand the history of American telecommunications is to attend to the political economies at the time technological innovation occurred. John brilliantly articulates this context. Shifting municipal and federal sensibilities ... Read more

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