Cables, crises, and the press :: the geopolitics of the new international information system in the Americas, 1866-1903 /

In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises. This book reveals an interesting parallel in the late nineteenth century, when a new communications system based on advances in submarine cable technology and newspaper printing brought information t...

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1. Verfasser: Britton, John A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]
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Zusammenfassung:In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises. This book reveals an interesting parallel in the late nineteenth century, when a new communications system based on advances in submarine cable technology and newspaper printing brought information to an excitable mass audience.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 473 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780826353986
0826353983

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