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Crossed wires: the conflicted history of US telecommunications, from the post office to the Internet
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036aXD-US
037beng
077a1822566738 Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe): ‡Schiller, Dan, 1951 - : Crossed wires
087q978-0-19-763923-8
100 Schiller, Dan ¬[VerfasserIn]¬
331 Crossed wires
335 the conflicted history of US telecommunications, from the post office to the Internet
410 New York, NY, United States of America
412 Oxford University Press
425 [2023]
425a2023
433 1 Online-Ressource
451bOxford scholarship online. Business and management
501 Includes bibliographical references and index
527 Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe): ‡Schiller, Dan, 1951 - : Crossed wires
540aISBN 978-0-19-763925-2 ePub
540aISBN 978-0-19-763926-9 eBook
700b|621.3820973
700b|384.0973
700c|TK5102.3.U6
700g1270685392 AP 18450
700g1271539845 NW 2562
750 "During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US territorial empire but, despite this overarching commonality, they branched apart in other ways. One network was owned by the state and the other by capital, and the two branches of the telecommunications system developed disparate rate structures, patterns of access, and social and institutional relationships. During the decades after the Civil War their divergence became politically charged. Would one model prevail over the other? Going forward, would it be the government Post Office or the corporate telegraph that set the terms of telecommunications development? The Post Office was the nation's originating system for communication at a distance. Both before and long after it was elevated to a cabinet department in 1829, furthermore, the Post Office was by far the largest unit of the central state. In 1831, the nation's 8700 postmasters comprised three-quarters of federal civilian employment; half a century later (excluding temporary postal employees and ordinary and railway mail clerks and letter carriers), some 50,000 postmasters accounted for perhaps one-third of all civilian employees in the executive branch. Though its relative weight as a government employer diminished after this, its workforce continued to swell. During the last two antebellum decades, meanwhile, an emergent technology - the electrical telegraph - was passed quickly from the federal government to private capital. The two systems' institutional identities immediately began to contrast in other ways"--
902g 209209682 USA
902s 209130482 Telekommunikation
902s 21032158X Telekommunikationswirtschaft
902z |Geschichte 1792-2022
012 1839551585
081 Schiller, Dan: Crossed wires
100 E-Book Oxford EBS
125aElektronischer Volltext - Campuslizenz
655e$uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197639238.001.0001
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