The Far Eastern Telegraphs: The History of Telegraphic Communications between the Far East, Europe, and America before the First World War

Ahvenainen, Jorma

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The telegraph, co-ordination of tramp shipping, and growth in world trade, 1870-1910

Lew

Cater

2006

European Review of Economic History

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The growth of trade after 1860 has been attributed to declining tariffs, to falling transport costs, and, recently, to monetary arrangements. However, coincident with the rise of trade the second half of the nineteenth century saw the development of the first electric communication network: the telegraph. The first successful trans-oceanic cable was operating in 1865. The telegraph remained the only direct trans-oceanic communication link until into the twentieth century. Little research has been conducted explicitly linking the impact of telegraphs on international shipping and international trade. A panel is used to show that there is a correlation between the diffusion of the telegraph, co-ordination of shipping, and the growth of world trade even controlling for the impact of other well-studied effects. The telegraph reduced the time ships spent in port and allowed ships to travel farther among ports to collect more valuable cargo.

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The telegraph, co-ordination of tramp shipping, and growth in world trade, 1870-1910

Lew

Cater

2006

European Review of Economic History

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Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization

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From Cabling the Atlantic to Wiring the World: A Review Essay on the 150th Anniversary of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1866

Müller¹

2016

Technology and Culture

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The year 2016 witnesses the 150th anniversary of laying the first successful transatlantic telegraph cables. This review essay offers a critical rereading of existing scholarship while simultaneously suggesting new perspectives for research. Telegraphy = globalization, the history of wiring the world commencing with the Atlantic cable of 1866 seems to suggest. At the same time, this essay argues, this equation should make scholars uneasy and cautious of a possible technological determinism retracing its steps back into the middle of scholarly debates on globalization. More attention needs to be paid to whose globalization we are talking about, what the globalization of politics, markets, and media means in connection to communication, and whether the cables really started something radically new. 150 years after laying the "first" Atlantic cable, there is still room for research. New spaces, theories, and methodologies, as well as alternate user groups including women and subalterns, offer avenues to test established scholarship on global communications.

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The Far Eastern Telegraphs: The History of Telegraphic Communications between the Far East, Europe, and America before the First World War

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The telegraph, co-ordination of tramp shipping, and growth in world trade, 1870-1910

The telegraph, co-ordination of tramp shipping, and growth in world trade, 1870-1910

Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization

From Cabling the Atlantic to Wiring the World: A Review Essay on the 150th Anniversary of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1866

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