Michael Mann

Gebundenes Buch

Wiring the Nation

Telecommunication, Newspaper-Reportage, and Nation Building in British India, 1850-1930

Beschreibung

This book analyses the social, cultural and political consequences of the telegraph in British India between 1850 and 1930. It demonstrates in how far the telegraph influenced and changed newspaper reportage in British India and, at the same time, to what extend it influenced the Indian national movement after the turn of the nineteenth century.

Autor

Michael Mann is Professor in the Department of South Asian History and Society at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His areas of interest include South Asian economic and social history, environmental history, and urban history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199472178
• ISBN-10: 0199472173
• Artikelnr.: 47869867