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Crossed Wires - The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet (Hardcover)
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Crossed Wires - The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet (Hardcover)
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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.
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