Cables, crises, and the press : the geopolitics of the new international information system in the Americas, 1866-1903 /

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Author / Creator:Britton, John A., author.
Imprint:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]
©2013
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 473 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11210070
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ISBN:9780826353986
0826353983
9780826353979
0826353975
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises. This book reveals an interesting parallel in the late nineteenth century, when a new communications system based on advances in submarine cable technology and newspaper printing brought information to an excitable mass audience.
Other form:Print version: Britton, John A. Cables, crises, and the press 9780826353979

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