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Networks of Modernity - Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 (Hardcover)
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Networks of Modernity - Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German History
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. Networks of Modernity: Germany in
the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 offers a fresh perspective on
the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of
the 'communications revolution' that transformed state and society
during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon the period
1830-1880, exploring the interactions between the many different
actors who developed, administered, and used one of the most
important technologies of the period-the electric telegraph. It
reveals the channels through which scientific and technical
knowledge circulated across Central Europe during the 1830s and
1840s, stimulating both collaboration and confrontation between the
scientists, technicians, businessmen, and bureaucrats involved in
bringing the telegraph to life. It highlights the technology's
impact upon the conduct of trade, finance, news distribution, and
government in the tumultuous decades that witnessed the 1848
revolutions, the wars of unification, and the establishment of the
Kaiserreich in 1871. Following the telegraph lines themselves, it
weaves together the changes which took place at a local, regional,
national, and eventually global level, revisiting the technology's
impact upon concepts of space and time, and highlighting the
importance of this period in laying the foundations for Germany's
experience of a profoundly ambiguous, networked modernity.
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