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

<p>This volume foregrounds the close, and mutually informing, relationships between mediated communication and technological innovation during the nineteenth century. It draws attention to the fact that communication was a driver of innovation, but also considers how communication practices adapted to new media and technologies. The following themes and subjects are covered:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>The development of the telegraph, from the semaphore in the late eighteenth century to the wireless in the late nineteenth.</li> <p> </p> <li>Rhe shift from privately owned to nationalised telegraph infrastructure and services.</li> <p> </p> <li>Mail trains, travelling post offices, and accelerated public communication.</li> <p> </p> <li>The development of and cultural responses to steam-packet technologies and infrastructures, and accelerated international communication.</li> <p> </p> <li>The development of and cultural responses to submarine and transoceanic telegraphy.</li> <p> </p> <li>The beginnings of telephony.</li> </ul>