{"product_id":"9783593399539","title":"Global Communication Electric: Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs catalysts of our present global condition, telegraphs are emblems of modernity. The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and patterns of interaction on a global scale. World politics and a global economy only became possible with the creation of “global communication electric.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections—\"Inter|Nationalisms,\" \"Agents|Actors,\" \"Use|News,\" and \"Space|Time\"—that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy. In exploring the varied uses of telegraphy, real or imagined, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Communication Electric\u003c\/i\u003e expands the notion of the telegraph as a globalizing medium: of connection as well as friction; of political, social, and economic entanglement as well as disentanglement; and of crossing as well as creating distance in space and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Campus Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041189904624,"sku":"9783593399539","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783593399539_p0.jpg?v=1763726466","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783593399539","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}