The Origins of International Agreements and Global Media: The Post, The Telegraph, and Wireless Communication Before World War I

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Origins of International Agreements and Global Media

T2 - The Post, The Telegraph, and Wireless Communication Before World War I

AU - Magder, Ted

PY - 2011/4/19

Y1 - 2011/4/19

KW - Contested concepts - An emerging field

KW - Effort to overhaul patchwork system - 15 countries meeting in Paris in 1863

KW - Legitimacy of modern state, expressed - capacity to enter into international agreements

KW - Mail crossing a frontier - classified and weighed

KW - Movement of mail, three stages - collection, transportation and delivery to its final destination

KW - Origins of international agreements and global media - post, telegraph and wireless communication

KW - Telegraph, multilateral and regional agreements - managing cross-border transmission

KW - The Post, organized movement of messages - as old as coordinated practice of politics and empire

KW - Universal Postal Union (UPU) - an open union

KW - Wireless, cable's monopoly - On fast-Long-Distance communication

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U2 - 10.1002/9781444395433.ch2

DO - 10.1002/9781444395433.ch2

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84886067592

SN - 9781405198714

SP - 21

EP - 39

BT - The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

PB - Wiley-Blackwell

ER -