The people's network : the political economy of the telephone in the Gilded Age / Robert MacDougall.

Author: MacDougall, Robert, 1971-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.

Description332 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note:All telephones are local -- Visions of telephony -- Unnatural monopoly -- The independent alternative -- The politics of scale -- The system gospel -- Conclusion: Return to Middletown.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-319) and index.

Note:The People's Network reconstructs the story of U.S. and Canadian independent telephone companies which challenged the Bell System's market domination in the twentieth century, linking the fight to control telecommunications to dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity, local versus centralized power.

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