America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
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The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology--how we... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520086473
ISBN13:9780520086470
Release Date:March 1994
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:442 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:8.9" x 1.1" x 6.0"
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Technology in the modern age
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
By using the telephone as a case study, Fischer examines the role of technology as an instrument in modern life. The first chapter provides a terrific overview of the academic literature on technology, though given the time span covered by the book, it does not address the Internet. The book is also unusual in that it actually relies on data when making claims about the telephone and the world that emerged around it.
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