“Supplying the public with a comprehensive telegraph system”: Switzerland and telegraphic communication, 1860-1915

Historical research has recently discovered its interest in the study of transregional and global networks of communication and their significance for the so-called “shrinking of the world”. In this context, the emergence and the role of a global telegraph network since the middle of the nineteenth...

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Main Author: Wenzlhuemer, Roland (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Basel Europainstitut an der Universität Basel, Institute for European Global Studies [2014]
Series:Global Europe - Basel papers on Europe in a global perspective no. 106
In: Global Europe - Basel papers on Europe in a global perspective (no. 106)

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Author Notes:Roland Wenzlhuemer