The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age

The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age

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The People's Network reconstructs the story of U.S. and Canadian independent telephone companies which challenged the Bell System's market domination in the twentieth century, linking the fight to control telecommunications to dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity, local versus centralized power.

Non-Fiction History History by country United States

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Book Details  

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (November 25, 2013)

Collection: American Business, Politics, and Society

Format: EPUB

Page count: 344 pages

Protection: DRM

Language: English

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