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The Invisible Weapon - Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 (Hardcover)
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The Invisible Weapon - Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 (Hardcover)
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Telecommunication is, and always has been, a political technology,
as the timely flow of information is a vital instrument of power.
This book examines the political history of telecommunications
between 1851, the year the first telegraph cable linked France and
Britain, and the end of World War II. Headrick argues that
telecommunication gives people options, not orders. During periods
of peace, cables and radio were, as many had predicted, instruments
of peace; in times of tension, they became instruments of politics,
tools for rival interests, and weapons of war. the book illuminates
the political aspects of information technology: the speed of
telegraphy, which could diffuse conflicts in far-flung empires, but
which also hastened the deterioration of diplomacy on the brink of
the First World War; the broad coverage of radio, which increased
public knowledge and public pressure on governments, and
consequently the political interest in controlling news; and the
security of telecommunications, which made communications strategy,
communications intelligence, and cryptography decisive tools during
the two World Wars.
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