Wireless and Empire - Aitor Anduaga

Wireless and Empire

Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
414 Seiten
2009
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-956272-5 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
This is the first book to study the relations between radio industry, atmospheric sciences and the British Empire throughout the interwar period.The result is a book displaying an exceptionally high order of originality, authority, and range, over an impressive diversity of national contexts, with Britain as the main focus.
Although the product of a self-proclaimed consensus politics, the British Empire was always based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Using the metaphor of a thread of five pieces representing the categories science, industry, government, the military, and the education, this is the first book to study the relations between wireless and Empire throughout the interwar period. It is also the first to make full use of the abundant archive material and rich sources existing in Britain and the Dominions. The book examines the evolving connection between the development of imperial radio communications and atmospheric physics; the expansion and strength of the British radio industry and its relationship with the elucidation of the ionosphere; and the different extent to which Australia, Canada and New Zealand managed to emulate the British model of radio R&D in the interwar years. The book ends with a highly original and provocative epilogue: 'The realist interpretation of the atmosphere'.

Current position: Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History. Biographical sketch: Research Fellow at the Universities of Oxford, Sydney, Montreal, Toronto, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.).

1. Government, radio research and upper atmospheric sciences in Britain ; 2. Telecommunications, geopolitics, education, and manufacturing in the British radio industry ; 3. From dominion to nation: upper atmospheric sciences and radio research in Australia ; 4. Telecommunications, education, manufacturing, and innovation in the Australian radio industry ; 5. Organizing radio research in New Zealand ; 6. Government, university, research and radio industry in Canada ; Postscript: Over- stating reality ; Epilogue: The realist interpretation of the atmosphere

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.2.2009
Zusatzinfo 26 b/w illustrations and 4pp colour plates
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 175 x 247 mm
Gewicht 919 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geophysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 0-19-956272-5 / 0199562725
ISBN-13 978-0-19-956272-5 / 9780199562725
Zustand Neuware
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