![]() | The People''s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age Subjects: Telephone -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Telephone -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Telephone companies -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Telephone companies -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Telephone -- Government polic; 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. Robert MacDougall is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Centre for American Studies at Western University in London, Ontario. |
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