By Daniel R. Headrick
An essential software of strength, telecommunications is and has consistently been a political expertise. during this ebook, Headrick examines the political historical past of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the top of global conflict II. He argues that this know-how gave society new thoughts. In instances of peace, the telegraph and radio have been, as many anticipated, tools of peace; in occasions of hysteria, they turned tools of politics, instruments for rival pursuits, and guns of battle. Writing in a full of life, obtainable kind, Headrick illuminates the political points of knowledge know-how, displaying how in either international Wars, using radio resulted in a shadowy conflict of disinformation, cryptography, and communications intelligence, with decisive consequences.
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