Wireless and Empire
Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 February 2009
- ISBN 9780199562725
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages414 pages
- Size 247x175x24 mm
- Weight 919 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 b/w illustrations and 4pp colour plates 0
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Short description:
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.
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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'.
It is a classic of its kind and will, no doubt, keep students of the field busy for years to come.
Table of Contents:
Government, radio research and upper atmospheric sciences in Britain
Telecommunications, geopolitics, education, and manufacturing in the British radio industry
From dominion to nation: upper atmospheric sciences and radio research in Australia
Telecommunications, education, manufacturing, and innovation in the Australian radio industry
Organizing radio research in New Zealand
Government, university, research and radio industry in Canada
Postscript: Over- stating reality
Epilogue: The realist interpretation of the atmosphere
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