Train and the Telegraph - A Revisionist History

Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best--and more often outright antagonists--throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.

Info autore

Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes is the managing editor of the JANNAF Journal of Propulsion and Energetics and a lecturer at Widener University's Center for Extended Learning.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes, Benjamin Sidney Michael (Managing Edito Schwantes, Benjamin Sidney Michael (Managing Editor) Schwantes
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781421429748
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2974-8
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics; Hagley Library Studies in Busi
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, History of the Americas, Trains and railways: general interest