Gregory J. Downey

Telegraph Messenger Boys (eBook, ePUB)

Labor, Communication and Technology, 1850-1950

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beyond the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135315757
• Artikelnr.: 40827175

Autorenporträt

Gregory J. Downey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Why Telegraph Messenger Boys? 2. Western Union and the
Inner-City Messengers 3. American District Telegraph and the Intra-City
Messengers 4. The Spaces of Messenger Discipline 5. The Message and the
Messenger 6. The Limits of Gender, Class and Age 7. The First Information
Internetwork 8. They Myths of Education 9. From Union Joke to Union Man 10.
The Telegram is Dead; Long Live the Messenger