The People's Network : : The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age / / Robert MacDougall.
The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens-farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs-established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Business, Politics, and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. A Fight with an Octopus
- Chapter 1. All Telephones Are Local
- Chapter 2. Visions of Telephony
- Chapter 3. Unnatural Monopoly
- Chapter 4. The Independent Alternative
- Chapter 5. The Politics of Scale
- Chapter 6. The System Gospel
- Conclusion. Return to Middletown
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments