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Network Nation - Inventing American Telecommunications (Paperback)
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The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical
communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they
were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In
this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John
demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only
by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by
political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal
levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World
War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant
providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks
that were products not only of technology and economics but also of
a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an
antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and
vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a
progressive political economy that idealized public utility and
disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph
and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent
on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasn't until 1900
that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of
exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The
telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five
years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in
1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications
within the broader context of American politics, business, and
discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the
critical role of political economy in the development of new
technologies and their implementation.
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