Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office and Civil Service
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Discontinuance of the Postal Savings System, Hearings. 89-2, on S. 1995 and H.R. 8030, January 27 and February 3, 1966
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office and Civil Service
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Crossed Wires
Author: Dan Schiller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197639259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled US imperialism through a a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications. Three other key findings wind through the book. First, business users of networks--more than carriers, and certainly more than residential users--have repeatedly determined how telecommunications systems have developed. Second, despite their current importance for virtually every sphere of social life, networks have been consecrated above all to aiding the circulation of commodities. Finally, although the preferences of executives and officials have broadly determined outcomes, these elites have repeatedly had to contend against the ideas and organizations of workers, social movement activists, and other reformers. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of US telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative--and contested--political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197639259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled US imperialism through a a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications. Three other key findings wind through the book. First, business users of networks--more than carriers, and certainly more than residential users--have repeatedly determined how telecommunications systems have developed. Second, despite their current importance for virtually every sphere of social life, networks have been consecrated above all to aiding the circulation of commodities. Finally, although the preferences of executives and officials have broadly determined outcomes, these elites have repeatedly had to contend against the ideas and organizations of workers, social movement activists, and other reformers. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of US telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative--and contested--political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.
Discontinuance of the Postal Savings System
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Category : Postal savings banks
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Postal savings banks
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character).
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index: 89th Congress-91st Congress, 1st session, 1965-1969 (5 v.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information Service
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Shelflist of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character) in the United States Senate Library from Eighty-sixth Congress (January 7, 1959) Through Ninety-first Congress (January 2, 1971)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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Dictionary Catalog of the Departmental Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Office of Library Services
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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