Title The people's network : the political economy of the telephone in the Gilded Age / Robert MacDougall

Edition 1st ed Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations Series American business, politics, and society American business, politics, and society Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. A Fight with an Octopus -- Chapter 1. All Telephones Are Local -- Chapter 2. Visions of Telephony -- Chapter 3. Unnatural Monopoly -- Chapter 4. The Independent Alternative -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Scale -- Chapter 6. The System Gospel -- Conclusion. Return to Middletown -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- History Bell Canada -- History SUBJECT American Telephone and Telegraph Company. fast (OCoLC)fst00541097 Bell Canada. fast (OCoLC)fst00571999 Subject 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 policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century Telephone -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Telephone. Telephone companies. Telephone -- Government policy. Canada. United States. Genre/Form Electronic books History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812209082 0812209087 1322512620 9781322512624

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