Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Information Technology, Geopolitics, and the World-System
Chapter 2. Telegraphy and the First Global Telecommunications Hegemony
Chapter 3. "The Whole World Kin": Telephony and the Development
of the Continental Polity to 1956
Chapter 4. Radio Telegraphy, Radio Telephony, and Interstate Competition, 1896–1917
Chapter 5. Challenges to British Telecommunications Hegemony: Continuous Wave Wireless
Chapter 6. Military Uses of Radio Communication: The Development of Communications, Command, and Control
Chapter 7. Communications, Command, and Control in the War in the Air: Radar, World War II, and the Slow Transition
to American Power
Chapter 8. Telecommunications and World-System Theory
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index

About the Author

Peter J. Hugill is a professor of geography at Texas A & M University. He is the author of World Trade since 1431, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Reviews

A first-rate historical study in the genre of world history . . . Combines geography with the social sciences in skillful fashion. It is lucidly written and will appeal to the specialist and general reader.
--Virginia Quarterly Review

A magnificent work, Braudelian in its conception, scope, and attention to detail . . . A delight.
--Progress in Human Geography

Hugill provides a refreshingly long historical sweep in arguing that transportation technologies have been the key to success in world trade . . . A wealth of historical and technical detail.
--Geonomics