Under the Wire - How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy

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"Under the Wire" offers a fascinating new perspective on the culture of diplomacy and the social history of technology.

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Summary

Through case studies in crisis diplomacy—the War of 1812, the Trent affair during the U.S. Civil War, and the famous 1917 Zimmermann telegram—Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: David Paull Nickles
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2003
• EAN: 9780674010352
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01035-2
• Weight: 531 g
• Illustrations: 8 halftones
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies; Harvard Historical Studies (Ha; Harvard Historical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, HISTORY / Europe / Western, Diplomacy, Impact of science and technology on society, Communications engineering / telecommunications