Nineteenth-Century Communications: Volume IV: Nation, Empire, Globe (1)
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- Synopsis
- This volume pays particular attention to Britain’s embeddedness—and role in shaping—a rapidly expanding global communications network. In particular, it reflects the links between communications and Britain’s imperial and colonial projects. It covers: The development of imperial communication routes and infrastructures as well as, in the late nineteenth-century, the introduction of imperial penny postage The ramifications of new technologies and media of communication for warfare and diplomacy between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the First World War Emigrants’ correspondence The domestic significance of communication infrastructure in relation to British national identity The 1874 establishment of the Union Postale Universelle and related initiatives to globalise communications
- Copyright:
- 2026
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 548 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781040362815
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780367477110, 9781003036098, 9781040362693
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 09/30/25
- Copyrighted By:
- selection and editorial matter, Ellen Smith, Karin Koehler, Nicola Kirkby, Eleanor Hopkins, Harriet M. Thompson and Kathleen McIlvenna
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Ellen Smith
- Edited by:
- Karin Koehler
- Edited by:
- Nicola Kirkby
- Edited by:
- Eleanor Hopkins
- Edited by:
- Harriet M. Thompson
- Edited by:
- Kathleen McIlvenna
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