Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed DiplomacyHow did the telegraph, a new and revolutionary form of communication, affect diplomats, who tended to resist change? In a study based on impressive multinational research, David Paull Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
Contents
The AngloAmerican Crisis of 1812 | 15 |
Diplomatic Autonomy and Telecommunications | 29 |
SPEED | 61 |
The Trent Affair | 63 |
Speed and Diplomacy | 77 |
Diplomatic Time | 101 |
THE MEDIUM | 133 |
The Zimmerman Telegram | 135 |
Technical and Economic Factors | 157 |
Conclusion | 187 |
Notes | 193 |
Acknowledgments | 253 |
Index | 255 |
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Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy David Paull NICKLES,David Paull Nickles Limited preview - 2009 |