Cables, Crises, and the Press

Name: Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the
Brand: University of New Mexico Press
SKU: 9780826353979
Price: 4668.00 INR
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The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the

by John A. Britton

University of New Mexico Press · 2013

A study of how a late nineteenth-century cable and newspaper network carried crisis news across the Americas, a parallel with the role of the internet in modern crises.

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The book compares the role of the internet in recent international crises with an earlier parallel in the late nineteenth century. At that time, a new communications system built on submarine cable technology and faster newspaper printing carried news to a mass audience that could be quickly stirred up.

Britton describes the network of insulated copper wires that linked North America, the Caribbean, South America and Europe, and how it delivered telegraphic news into the press. The subtitle places the study in the geopolitics of the Americas between 1866 and 1903.

Published by University of New Mexico Press. ISBN-13: 9780826353979.