Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780-1918

Ellen Smith • Karin Koehler • Nicola Kirkby • Eleanor Hopkins • Harriet Thompson

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470 sidor
2025

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.

Författare: Ellen Smith, Karin Koehler, Nicola Kirkby, Eleanor Hopkins, Harriet Thompson
Format: Inbunden
ISBN: 9780367477110
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 470
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-09-25
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd