Author: United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power
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Category : Television broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
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Author: Dan Schiller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197639232
Category : Telecommunications
Languages : en
Pages : 833

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"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"--

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1456

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 1458

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Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Author: George D. Brightbill
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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