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In "World Trade Since 1431", Peter Hugill sought to show how the interplay of technology and geography guided the evolution of the modern global capitalistic system. In the successor to this book, he shifts the focus to telecommunications, demonstrating that those nations that best developed and marketed new technologies were the nations that rose to world power. Beginning with the advent of the telegraph in the 1840s, the account shows how each major change in transportation and communications technologies brought about a corresponding transformation from one world economy to another. British advances in international telegraphy after the American Civil War, for example, kept that nation just ahead of the USA in the communications race, a position it held until 1945. Hugill explains how such developments as aerial bombardment of cities in World War I spurred the development of radio and, ultimately, radar. He also traces the steps that led to the British surrender of world hegemony to the USA at the end of World War II.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Information Technology, Geopolitics, and the World-System Chapter 2. Telegraphy and the First Global Telecommunications Hegemony Chapter 3. "The Whole World Kin": Telephony and the Development of the Continental Polity to 1956 Chapter 4. Radio Telegraphy, Radio Telephony, and Interstate Competition, 1896–1917 Chapter 5. Challenges to British Telecommunications Hegemony: Continuous Wave Wireless Chapter 6. Military Uses of Radio Communication: The Development of Communications, Command, and Control Chapter 7. Communications, Command, and Control in the War in the Air: Radar, World War II, and the Slow Transition to American Power Chapter 8. Telecommunications and World-System Theory Glossary References Name Index Subject Index

About the Author :
Peter J. Hugill is a professor of geography at Texas A & M University. He is the author of 'World Trade since 1431,' also available from Johns Hopkins.

Review :
A first-rate historical study in the genre of world history . . . Combines geography with the social sciences in skillful fashion. It is lucidly written and will appeal to the specialist and general reader. --Virginia Quarterly Review A magnificent work, Braudelian in its conception, scope, and attention to detail . . . A delight. --Progress in Human Geography Hugill provides a refreshingly long historical sweep in arguing that transportation technologies have been the key to success in world trade . . . A wealth of historical and technical detail. --Geonomics


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801860393
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 822 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801860393
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jun 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: Geopolitics and Technology
  • Width: 178 mm


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