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Crossed Wires : The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet by Dan Schiller (2023, Hardcover)

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A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century.Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and.