Networks of Modernity
This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of the ‘communications revolution’ that transformed state and society during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon the period 1830–80, exploring the interactions between the many different actors...
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2021
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| description | This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of the ‘communications revolution’ that transformed state and society during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon the period 1830–80, exploring the interactions between the many different actors who developed, administered, and used one of the most important technologies of the period—the electric telegraph. Drawing upon evidence from Prussia, Bavaria, Bremen, and a number of towns across Central Europe, it reveals the channels through which knowledge circulated across the region, stimulating both collaboration and confrontation between the scientists, technicians, businessmen, and bureaucrats involved in bringing the telegraph to life. It highlights the technology’s impact upon the conduct of trade, finance, news distribution, and government in the tumultuous decades that witnessed the 1848 revolutions, the wars of unification, and the establishment of the Kaiserreich in 1871. Following the telegraph lines themselves, it weaves together the changes which took place at a local, regional, national, and eventually global level, revisiting the technology’s impact upon concepts of space and time, and highlighting the importance of this period in laying the foundations for Germany’s experience of a profoundly ambiguous, networked modernity. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-700582025-05-09T12:06:35Z Networks of Modernity Johnston, Jean-Michel Germany, nineteenth century, networks, technology, telegraph, modernity, modernization, globalization, nation-building This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of the ‘communications revolution’ that transformed state and society during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon the period 1830–80, exploring the interactions between the many different actors who developed, administered, and used one of the most important technologies of the period—the electric telegraph. Drawing upon evidence from Prussia, Bavaria, Bremen, and a number of towns across Central Europe, it reveals the channels through which knowledge circulated across the region, stimulating both collaboration and confrontation between the scientists, technicians, businessmen, and bureaucrats involved in bringing the telegraph to life. It highlights the technology’s impact upon the conduct of trade, finance, news distribution, and government in the tumultuous decades that witnessed the 1848 revolutions, the wars of unification, and the establishment of the Kaiserreich in 1871. Following the telegraph lines themselves, it weaves together the changes which took place at a local, regional, national, and eventually global level, revisiting the technology’s impact upon concepts of space and time, and highlighting the importance of this period in laying the foundations for Germany’s experience of a profoundly ambiguous, networked modernity. 2021-05-26T02:02:50Z 2021-05-26T02:02:50Z 2021-05-25T12:16:36Z 2021 book OCN: 1249471577 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48784 9780198856887 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70058 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48784/1/9780198856887.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48784/1/9780198856887.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48784/1/9780198856887.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48784/1/9780198856887.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48784/1/9780198856887.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198856887.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198856887.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9780198856887 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 304 Oxford 340121 open access |
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