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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):535-537; doi:10.1093/es/khn075
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Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike. Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xv + 345 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-3912-0, $89.95 (cloth); 9-780-8223-3928-1, $24.95 (paper)

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Dwayne Winseck and Robert Pike present a wide-ranging study of communications technologies, global media, and the growth of international cable and wireless telecommunications providers in Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930. Over the course of ten chapters, Winseck, a professor of media studies at Carleton College, and Pike, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University, uncover the complex origins of the international telecommunications industry in the mid-nineteenth century, and explore its growing influence over commerce, information . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Benjamin Schwantes

University of Delaware


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