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Author: Dwayne R. Winseck ,
Robert M. Pike
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.662kg
ISBN: 9780822339281
ISBN 10: 0822339285
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 17 July 2007
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
I know of no other recent work that comes close to this one in sweep, detail, and complexity, yet is so compellingly relevant to our present times. Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike have done a masterful job unraveling a tortuously complex and fragmented narrative of the rivalries, alliances, ambitions, and subterfuges in which the cable companies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged. --Oliver Boyd-Barrett, author of Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire The central arguments of Communication and Empire--that the 'empire of capital' is not coterminous with imperialism, and that many of the central features of the contemporary global communications system have their roots in the period of global commercial expansion before the high tide of imperialism--are both important and timely, and are supported with a wealth of original firsthand empirical material. --Graham Murdock, coeditor of The Political Economy of the Media
Communication and Empire offers a noteworthy overview of the development of global communications systems prior to the Great Depression... [A] groundbreaking analysis of the connections between private communications firms and broader issues of global development. -- Benjamin Schwantes, Enterprise and Society [T]he great strength of this book is its exacting elaboration of so many additional vectors, which together comprise first-wave globalization of instructive complexity. If the core of the book is a global industry history that joins hardware (the cables) and 'content' (the wire services), the book is also attentive to political and diplomatic history. Readers will no doubt see striking parallels-even continuities-between the global media system that Winseck and Pike describe and the one we know today. -- Lisa Gitelman, American Historical Review I know of no other recent work that comes close to this one in sweep, detail, and complexity, yet is so compellingly relevant to our present times. Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike have done a masterful job unraveling a tortuously complex and fragmented narrative of the rivalries, alliances, ambitions, and subterfuges in which the cable companies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged. -Oliver Boyd-Barrett, editor of Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire The central arguments of Communication and Empire-that the 'empire of capital' is not coterminous with imperialism, and that many of the central features of the contemporary global communications system have their roots in the period of global commercial expansion before the high tide of imperialism-are both important and timely, and are supported with a wealth of original firsthand empirical material. -Graham Murdock, editor of The Political Economy of the Media
I know of no other recent work that comes close to this one in sweep, detail, and complexity, yet is so compellingly relevant to our present times. Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike have done a masterful job unraveling a tortuously complex and fragmented narrative of the rivalries, alliances, ambitions, and subterfuges in which the cable companies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged. -Oliver Boyd-Barrett, editor of Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire The central arguments of Communication and Empire-that the 'empire of capital' is not coterminous with imperialism, and that many of the central features of the contemporary global communications system have their roots in the period of global commercial expansion before the high tide of imperialism-are both important and timely, and are supported with a wealth of original firsthand empirical material. -Graham Murdock, editor of The Political Economy of the Media Communication and Empire offers a noteworthy overview of the development of global communications systems prior to the Great Depression... [A] groundbreaking analysis of the connections between private communications firms and broader issues of global development. -- Benjamin Schwantes Enterprise and Society [T]he great strength of this book is its exacting elaboration of so many additional vectors, which together comprise first-wave globalization of instructive complexity. If the core of the book is a global industry history that joins hardware (the cables) and 'content' (the wire services), the book is also attentive to political and diplomatic history. Readers will no doubt see striking parallels-even continuities-between the global media system that Winseck and Pike describe and the one we know today. -- Lisa Gitelman American Historical Review
Author Information
Dwayne R. Winseck is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. He is the author of Reconvergence: A Political Economy of Telecommunications in Canada and a coeditor of Democratizing Communication? Comparative Perspectives on Information and Power and Media in Global Context. Robert M. Pike is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of many articles on the history of communications.
