Conclusions: The Moving Forces of the Early Global Media

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. About the Series ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Tables xiii
6. Preface and Acknowledgments xv
7. Introduction: Deep Globalization and the Global Media in the Late Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth 1
8. 1 Building the Global Communication Infrastructure: Brakes and Accelerators on New Communication Technologies, 1850–70 16
9. 2 From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era: The Struggle for Control in the Euro-American and South American Communication Markets, 1870–1905 43
10. 3 Indo-European Communication Markets and the Scrambling of Africa: Communication and Empire in the ‘‘Age of Disorder’’ 92
11. 4 Electronic Kingdom and Wired Cities in the ‘‘Age of Disorder’’: The Struggle for Control of China’s National and Global Communication Capabilities, 1870–1901 113
12. 5 The Politics of Global Media Reform I, 1870–1905: The Early Movements against Private Cable Monopolies 142
13. 6 The Politics of Global Media Reform II, 1906–16: Rivalry and Managed Competition in the Age of Empire(s) and Social Reform 177
14. 7 Wireless, War, and Communication Networks, 1914–22 228
15. 8 Thick and Thin Globalism: Wilson, the Communication Experts, and the American Approach to Global Communication, 1918–22 257
16. 9 Communication and Informal Empires: Consortia and the Evolution of South American and Asian Communication Markets, 1918–30 277
17. 10 The Euro-American Communication Market and Media Merger Mania: New Technology and the Political Economy of Communication in the 1920s 304
18. Conclusions: The Moving Forces of the Early Global Media 338
19. Notes 347
20. Bibliography 379
21. Index 403