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Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet Audiobook, by Dan Schiller Play Audiobook Sample

Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet Audiobook

Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet Audiobook, by Dan Schiller Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Christopher Douyard Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 21.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 16.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798350825145

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

40

Longest Chapter Length:

59:54 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

25:33 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

48:25 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information—within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power.

In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on United States telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary United States political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled United States imperialism through a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications.

This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of United States telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative—and contested—political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.

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