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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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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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