The People's Network
Robert MacDougall · 2013
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"The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived." -- Publisher's description.
Book details
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 344
- ISBN
- 9780812209082
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