Historical Social Research/ Historische Sozialforschung HSR Vol. 35 (2010) No. 1 – Special Issue: Global Communication
Special Issue:Roland Wenzlhuemer (Ed.): Global Communication: Telecommunication and Global Flows of Information in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century / Globale Kommunikation: Telekommunikation und globale Informationsflüsse im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
& Mixed Issue (Articles, Cliometrics); 376 pages.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, electric telegraphy emerged as the first fully-fledged system of telecommunication. The global flow of dematerialized information carried by a network of submarine and overland telegraph lines challenged the established relationship between time and space (or at least so it seemed) and detached human interaction from co-locality or proximity. By bringing geographically distant and socio-culturally diverse places in touch, telecommunication technologies helped to manifest a placeless global sphere and co-shaped globalization processes. They can do so because they directly affect the very constituents of globalization: global exchanges, movements, transfers, flows. For instance, the telegraph changed the nature of news reporting; it impacted on business and administrative language (and via this detour ultimately on language in general); it separated the global flow of short and decisive information from that of more profound background information; and, of course, it created new asymmetries and divides due to the uneven structure of its network and other access barriers.
In short, the telegraph and later the telephone transformed the nature of many forms of global interaction and introduced a new logic, new actors, new places and new practices to this realm. This volume seeks to highlight the complex role of telecommunication and its networks in nineteenth-century globalization processes—a role that has often been reduced to furthering imperial control and international business. The contributions in this special issue do not ignore these two traditional perspectives but primarily seek to illuminate new and previously understudied aspects of the relation between telecommunication and globalization.
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CONTENTS
SPECIAL ISSUERoland Wenzlhuemer (Ed.): Global Communication: Telecommunication and Global Flows of Information in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century / Globale Kommunikation: Telekommunikation und globale Informationsflüsse im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
INTRODUCTION
Roland Wenzlhuemer Editorial – Telecommunication and Globalization in the Nineteenth Century. Seite 7
Roland Wenzlhuemer Globalization, Communication and the Concept of Space in Global History. Seite 19
TELEGRAPHY & EMPIRE
Daniel Headrick A Double-Edged Sword: Communications and Imperial Control in British India. Seite 51
Daqing Yang Telecommunication and the Japanese Empire: A Preliminary Analysis of Telegraphic Traffic. Seite 66
Paul Fletcher The Uses and Limitations of Telegrams in Official Correspondence between Ceylon’s Governor General and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, circa 1870-1900. Seite 90
Javier Márquez Quevedo Telecommunications and Colonial Rivalry: European Telegraph Cables to the Canary Islands and Northwest Africa, 1883-1914. Seite 108
TELEGRAPHY & THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury Of Codes and Coda: Meaning in Telegraph Messages, circa 1850-1920. Seite 127
Gordon M. Winder Imagining World Citizenship in the Networked Newspaper: La Nación Reports the Assassination at Sarajevo, 1914. Seite 140
Amelia Bonea The Medium and Its Message: Reporting the Austro-Prussian War in the Times of India. Seite 167
Michael Mann The Deep Digital Divide: The Telephone in British India 1883-1933. Seite 188
Heidi J. S. Evans “The Path to Freedom”? Transocean and German Wireless Telegraphy, 1914-1922. Seite 209
TELEGRAPHY & SOCIAL NETWORKS
Simone Müller The Transatlantic Telegraphs and the Class of 1866 – the Formative Years of Transnational Networks in Telegraphic Space, 1858-1884/89. Seite 237
Lynne Hamill The Social Shaping of British Communications Networks prior to the First World War. Seite 260
MIXED ISSUE
ARTICLES
Michael Ruddat & Marlen Schulz Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer integrativen Metaanalyse in der Soziologie. Seite 289
CLIOMETRICS
Alvaro S. Pereira Localized or Generalized Growth? Structural Breaks and the Two Views of the Industrial Revolution. Seite 323
Antonio Tena Junguito Tariff History Lessons from the European Periphery. Protection Intensity and the Infant Industry Argument in Spain and Italy 1870-1930. Seite 340
Tapas Mishra, Claude Diebolt, Mamata Parhi, Asit Ranjan Mohanty A Bayesian Analysis of Total Factor Productivity Persistence. Seite 363