Wiring the World

A valuable and illuminating analysis.

An excellent resource for communications history. Highly recommended.

Richard R. John, author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications:
By reconstructing the social networks that linked nineteenth-century British, German, and American North Atlantic telegraph promoters, Wiring the World provides us with a wealth of intriguing and sometimes startling insights into the cultural significance of the Atlantic cable—one of the most iconic technological innovations of the age.

Emily S. Rosenberg, editor of A World Connecting, 1870-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2012):
Wiring the World is a story not only of technical and entrepreneurial achievement but of imperial rivalry, the rise of professions, complex cultural interactions, far-reaching social changes, and a remapping of the meaning of maritime space. Focusing on one of the major developments of the communications revolution—the linking together of much of the world with submarine cable lines in the era before World War I—Simone M. Müller's carefully crafted study contributes significantly to the history and theory of globalization.

Pascal Griset, Sorbonne:
Based on a clear knowledge of the state of the art, while adopting a solid methodology and robust concepts, Müller is able to provide a fresh history of the development of telegraph networks during the nineteenth century in a truly global perspective.