Author: Gardiner Greene Hubbard
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Union of the Post-office and Telegraph
Author: Gardiner Greene Hubbard
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Postal Telegraph Pamphlets
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Category : Government ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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A collection U.S. government documents, corporate statements, letters, and speeches on the establishment of a postal telegraph system in the United States.
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Category : Government ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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A collection U.S. government documents, corporate statements, letters, and speeches on the establishment of a postal telegraph system in the United States.
The American Postal Network, 1792-1914 Vol 4
Author: Richard R John
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040251056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040251056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845–1893
Author: Joshua D. Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107244579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles that raged over Western Union's monopoly on nineteenth-century American telecommunications - in Congress, in courts, and in the press - illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of American political economy. The telegraph debate reveals that what we understand as the normative relationship between private capital and public interest is the product of a historical process that was neither inevitable nor uncontested. Western Union's monopoly was not the result of market logic or a managerial revolution, but the conscious creation of entrepreneurs protecting their investments. In the process, these entrepreneurs elevated economic liberalism above traditional republican principles of public interest and helped create a new corporate order.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107244579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles that raged over Western Union's monopoly on nineteenth-century American telecommunications - in Congress, in courts, and in the press - illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of American political economy. The telegraph debate reveals that what we understand as the normative relationship between private capital and public interest is the product of a historical process that was neither inevitable nor uncontested. Western Union's monopoly was not the result of market logic or a managerial revolution, but the conscious creation of entrepreneurs protecting their investments. In the process, these entrepreneurs elevated economic liberalism above traditional republican principles of public interest and helped create a new corporate order.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Journal of the Telegraph
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Technologies of Power
Author: Michael Thad Allen
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262511247
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing meanings of modernity. They consider the relationship among the state, expertise, and authority; the construction of national identity; changes in the structure and distribution of labor; political ideology and industrial development; and political practices during the Cold War. The essays show how insight into the technological aspects of such broad processes can help synthesize material and cultural methods of inquiry and how reframing technology's past in broader historical terms can suggest new directions for science and technology studies.The essays were written in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, whose spirit of inquiry they seek to continue. Contributors Janet Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht, Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund N. Todd, Hans Weinberger
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262511247
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing meanings of modernity. They consider the relationship among the state, expertise, and authority; the construction of national identity; changes in the structure and distribution of labor; political ideology and industrial development; and political practices during the Cold War. The essays show how insight into the technological aspects of such broad processes can help synthesize material and cultural methods of inquiry and how reframing technology's past in broader historical terms can suggest new directions for science and technology studies.The essays were written in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, whose spirit of inquiry they seek to continue. Contributors Janet Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht, Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund N. Todd, Hans Weinberger
The Congressional globe
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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