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America Calling A Social History of the Telephone to 1940

Paperback • 1992 • English

America Calling A Social History of the Telephone to 1940

By Claude S. Fischer

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The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology—how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three ...Show more

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9780520086470

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

America Calling A Social History of the Telephone to 1940

Format

Paperback

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