Communication And Empire

Author : Harold Adams Innis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire and Communications written by Harold Adams Innis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Empire and Communications" by Harold Adams Innis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Dwayne R. Winseck
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822389996
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication and Empire written by Dwayne R. Winseck and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories suggest that the growth of global communications correlated with imperial expansion: an increasing number of cables were laid as colonial powers competed for control of resources. Winseck and Pike argue that the role of the imperial contest, while significant, has been exaggerated. They emphasize how much of the global media system was in place before the high tide of imperialism in the early twentieth century, and they point to other factors that drove the proliferation of global media links, including economic booms and busts, initial steps toward multilateralism and international law, and the formation of corporate cartels. Drawing on extensive research in corporate and government archives, Winseck and Pike illuminate the actions of companies and cartels during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, in many different parts of the globe, including Africa, Asia, and Central and South America as well as Europe and North America. The complex history they relate shows how cable companies exploited or transcended national policies in the creation of the global cable network, how private corporations and government agencies interacted, and how individual reformers fought to eliminate cartels and harmonize the regulation of world communications. In Communication and Empire, the multinational conglomerates, regulations, and the politics of imperialism and anti-imperialism as well as the cries for reform of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth emerge as the obvious forerunners of today’s global media.

Author : Christopher Alan Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521663601
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire and Information written by Christopher Alan Bayly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.

Author : Herbert Schiller
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813314402
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Communications And American Empire written by Herbert Schiller and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1992-08-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969146
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire written by Oliver Boyd-Barrett and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the political economy of media, and to what extent global communications and popular entertainment continue to serve elite interests. In Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire, an international team of experts analyzes and critiques the political economy of media communications worldwide. Their analysis takes particular account of the sometimes conflicting pressures of globalization and “neo-imperialism.” The first is commonly defined as the dismantling of barriers to trade and cultural exchange and responds significantly to lobbying of the world’s largest corporations, including media corporations. The second concerns US pursuit of national security interests as response to “terrorism,” at one level and, at others, to intensifying competition among both nations and corporations for global natural resources.

Author : Jill Hills
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252047125
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telecommunications and Empire written by Jill Hills and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Hills picks up from her pathbreaking study The Struggle for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century to continue her examination of the political, technological, and economic forces at work in the global telecommunications market from World War II to the World Trade Organization agreement of 1997. In the late twentieth century, focus shifted from the creation and development of global communication markets to their intense regulation. The historical framework behind this control--where the market was regulated, by what institution, controlled by what power, and to whose benefit--masterfully complements Hills's analysis of power relations within the global communications arena. Hills documents attempts by governments to direct, replace, and bypass international telecommunications institutions. As she shows, the results have offered indirect control over foreign domestic markets, government management of private corporations, and government protection of its own domestic communication market. Hills reveals that the motivation behind these powerful, regulatory efforts on person-to-person communication lies in the unmatched importance of communication in the world economy. As ownership of communications infrastructure becomes more valuable, governments have scrambled to shape international guidelines. Hills provides insight into struggles between U.S. policymakers and the rest of the world, illustrating the conflict between a growing telecommunications empire and sovereign states that are free to implement policy changes. Freshly detailing the interplay between U.S. federal regulation and economic power, Hills fosters a deep understanding of contemporary systems of power in global communications.

Author : Simon Franklin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178374376X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information and Empire written by Simon Franklin and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. Communication networks such as the postal service and the gathering and circulation of news are examined alongside the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its country and its people. The inscription of space is considered from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and non-Russianists who are interested in the history of information and communications.

Author : Alexander John Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802094780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marginal Man written by Alexander John Watson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an extraordinary work of scholarship in its own right, as well as an essential companion to the work of its subject, one of Canada's most important minds.

Author : Dwayne Roy Winseck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786612923357
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication and Empire written by Dwayne Roy Winseck and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and political economy of global communication, showing how capitalism, multilateralism, modernization, and imperialism shaped the evolution of communication.

Author : Harold A. Innis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781487520694
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire and Communications written by Harold A. Innis and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Empire and Communications enriches Harold A. Innis's examination of the relationship between communications and power structures.