List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Information Technology, Geopolitics, and the World-System
Chapter 2. Telegraphy and the First Global Telecommunications Hegemony
Chapter 3. "The Whole World Kin": Telephony and the Development
of the Continental Polity to 1956
Chapter 4. Radio Telegraphy, Radio Telephony, and Interstate Competition, 18961917
Chapter 5. Challenges to British Telecommunications Hegemony: Continuous Wave Wireless
Chapter 6. Military Uses of Radio Communication: The Development of Communications, Command, and Control
Chapter 7. Communications, Command, and Control in the War in the Air: Radar, World War II, and the Slow Transition
to American Power
Chapter 8. Telecommunications and World-System Theory
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index