The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
(Part of the American Business, Politics, and Society Series)
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The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens--farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs--established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812245695
ISBN13:9780812245691
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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