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dc.contributor.authorJohnston, Jean-Michel
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-26T02:02:50Z
dc.date.available2021-05-26T02:02:50Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2021-05-25T12:16:36Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48784
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70058
dc.description.abstractThis book offers a fresh perspective on the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of the ‘communications revolution’ that transformed state and society during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon the period 1830–80, exploring the interactions between the many different actors who developed, administered, and used one of the most important technologies of the period—the electric telegraph. Drawing upon evidence from Prussia, Bavaria, Bremen, and a number of towns across Central Europe, it reveals the channels through which knowledge circulated across the region, stimulating both collaboration and confrontation between the scientists, technicians, businessmen, and bureaucrats involved in bringing the telegraph to life. It highlights the technology’s impact upon the conduct of trade, finance, news distribution, and government in the tumultuous decades that witnessed the 1848 revolutions, the wars of unification, and the establishment of the Kaiserreich in 1871. Following the telegraph lines themselves, it weaves together the changes which took place at a local, regional, national, and eventually global level, revisiting the technology’s impact upon concepts of space and time, and highlighting the importance of this period in laying the foundations for Germany’s experience of a profoundly ambiguous, networked modernity.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLL Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
dc.subject.otherGermany, nineteenth century, networks, technology, telegraph, modernity, modernization, globalization, nation-building
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
dc.titleNetworks of Modernity
dc.title.alternativeGermany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/oso/9780198856887.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydb4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1
oapen.relation.isFundedByFP7 Ideas: European Research Council
oapen.relation.isFundedBy7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79
oapen.relation.isbn9780198856887
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)
oapen.pages304
oapen.place.publicationOxford
oapen.grant.number340121
dc.relationisFundedBy7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79
dc.grantprojectDISEASES


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