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History of Post and Telecoms Bibliography
Journal and Book Chapter Articles 2000-2006

Bektas, Yakup. "The Sultan's Messenger: Cultural Constructions of Ottoman Telegraphy, 1847-1880," Technology and Culture 41 (2000): 669-696

Boyce, Robert W. D. “Imperial dreams and national realities : Britain, Canada and the struggle for the Pacific Telegraph Cable, 1879-1902”, English Historical Review, 115 (2000), 39-70.

Chapman, Allan. “Time and the Victorian Internet”, Antiquarian Horology. - Vol.25, no.4 (June), supplement, p. 41-44, Proceedings of the Oxford 2000 Convention, 15-16 April

Choudhury, D. K. L. '"Beyond the reach of monkeys and men?" O'Shaughnessy and the telegraph in India c.1836-56'. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 37:3 (2000), 331-60.

Cookson, Gillian. “The transatlantic telegraph cable : eighth wonder of the world”, History Today, 50:3 (2000), 44-51

Davids, Mila & Luiten van Zanden, J. ‘A Reluctant State and its Enterprises: State-Owned Enterprises in the Netherlands in the “Long” Twentieth Century’ in Toninelli, PA (ed.) (2000) The Rise and Fall of State-owned Enterprise in the Western World, Cambridge

Jacobsen, K. “The Great Northern Telegraph Company and Russia: 130 years of cooperation in the light of big politics (the end)”, OTECHESTV ISTORIYA (6): 28-41 NOV-DEC 2000

John, R. “Recasting the information infrastructure for the industrial age” pp55-105 in Chandler A & Cortada (eds) (2000), A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present, New York, Oxford University Press

Martin, Andy. “Mentioned in dispatches: Napoleon, Chappe and Chateaubriand.” Modern & Contemporary France, Nov2000, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p445-455

Menke, R. “Telegraphic realism: Henry James's 'In the Cage'”, PMLA 115 (5): 975-990 OCT 2000

Morus, I. R. '"The nervous system of Britain" : space, time and the electric telegraph in the Victorian age'. British Journal for the History of Science, 33:4:119 (2000), 455-76.

Phillips, R. “Digital Technology and Institutional Change from the Gilded Age to Modern Times: The Impact of the Telegraph and the Internet”, pp 267-290 in Journal of Economic Issues Vol XXXIV No 2 June 2000

Webster F. “Information, capitalism and uncertainty”, pp69-90 in Information, Communication & Society 2000

Bektas, Y. “Displaying the American genius: the electromagnetic telegraph in the wider world”, BRIT J HIST SCI 34 (121): 199-232 Part 2 JUN 2001

Carlson, W. Bernard. “The Telephone as Political Instrument: Gardiner Hubbard and the Formation of the Middle Class in America, 1875-1880”, In: Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes -- Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001 p.25-55

Davies, J. D. “Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David's and progenitor of the internet”, The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, 37 (2001), 51-61.

Green, Venus. “Race, gender, and national identity in the American and British telephone industries”, International Review of Social History, 46:2 (2001), 185-205.

Headrick, D & Griset P. “Submarine Telegraph Cables: Business and Politics 1839-1939”, pp543-578 in Business History Review 75 No3 Autumn 2001

Hampton, K & Wellman B. “Long Distance Community in the Network Society: Contact and Support Beyond Netville”, American Behavioral Scientist 45, November 2001

Kaukianen, Y. “Shrinking the World: Improvements in the speed of information transmission. 1820-1870” pp1-28 in European Review of Economic History, 5,2001

Nonnenmacher T. “State Promotion and Regulation of the Telegraph Industry 1845-1860”, pp19-36 in Journal of Economic History 61 (March 2001)

Otis, Laura. “The Other End of the Wire: Uncertainties of Organic and Telegraphic Communication”, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 9, no. 2 (2001 Spring): p. 181-206

Pollard, Tomas. “Telegraphing the Sentence and the Story: Iconicity in ‘In the Cage’ by Henry James”, European Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (2001 Apr): p. 81-96

Raines, P & Leathers C. “Telecommuting: The New Wave of Workplace Technology Will Create a Flood of Change in Social Institutions”, pp 307-314 in Journal of Economic Issues Vol XXXV No 2 June 2001

Robson, G, Butler, T. “Coming to terms with London: Middle-class communities in a global city”, INT J URBAN REGIONAL 25 (1): 70-+ MAR 2001

Baron, NS. “Who sets e-mail style? Prescriptivism, coping strategies, and democratizing communication access”, Information Society 18 (5): 403-413 OCT-DEC 2002

Calvo, Angel. “The Spanish telephone sector (1876-1924): A case of technological backwardness”, History and Technology, Vol 18: 2 pp 77 – 102, June 2002

Constable, Anthony R. “Marconi's transatlantic wireless message, 1901”, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 73:1 (2002), 53-70.

Gilmore, P. “The telegraph in black and white”, ELH-ENGL LIT HIST 69 (3): 805-833 FAL 2002

Gunn, S. “Knowledge, power and the city since 1700”, pp59-63 in Social History January 2002

Hochfelder, D. “Constructing an industrial divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the federal government 1876-1971”, BUS HIST REV 76 (4): 705-732 WIN 2002

Jacobsen, Kurt. (2002), “The Great Northern Telegraph Company and the British Empire 1869-1945”, pp199-230 in Sevaldsen, Jørgen; Bjørn, Claus; Bjørke, Bo (ed.), Britain and Denmark : political, economic and cultural relations in the 19th and 20th centuries Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum.

McMahon, Peter. Early Electrical Communications Technology and Structural Change in the International Political Economy—The Cases of Telegraphy and Radio. Prometheus, Dec2002, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p379-390, 12p

Milne, Graeme J. “Knowledge, communications and the information order in nineteenth-century Liverpool”. International Journal of Maritime History [St John's, Newfoundland], 14:1 (2002)

Shahvar, S. "Concession Hunting in the Age of Reform : British Companies and the Search for Government Guarantees and Telegraph Concessions through Ottoman Territories, 1855-1858", Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 38, no. 4 (October 2002) : 169-193.

Willmore, L. “Government policies toward information and communication technologies: a historical perspective”, J INFORM SCI 28 (2): 89-96 2002

Shahvar, S. "Tribes and Telegraphs in Lower Iraq : The Muntafiq and the Baghdad-Basrah Telegraph Line of 1863-1865", Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 39 no 1 pp 89-116 (January 2003)

Choudhury DKL. “India’s First Virtual Community and the Telegraph General Strike of 1908”, in International Review of Social History, 48 (2003) Supplement 11: 45-72

van Cuilenburg, Jan; McQuail, Denis. Media Policy Paradigm Shifts. European Journal of Communication, Jun2003, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p181, 27p

Downey, G. (2003), “Telegraph messenger boys: Crossing the borders between history of technology and human geography”, Professional Geographer. 55(2):134-145, May.

Downey, G. “The Place of Labor in the History of Information Technology Revolutions”, in International Review of Social History, 48 (2003) Supplement 11: 225-261

Fields, G. “Communications, innovation, and territory: the production network of Swift Meat Packing and the creation of a national US market”, J HIST GEOGR 29 (4): 599-617 OCT 2003

Kline, Ronald (2003), “Resisting Consumer Technology in Rural America: The Telephone and Electrification,” pp51-66 in Oudshoorn, Nelly and Trevor Pinch eds., How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technologies, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press

Lindley, WR (2003), “How the Telegraph Trail reached Oregon”, J WEST 42 (2): 102-107

McCormack, Jerusha Hull. “Domesticating Delphi: Emily Dickinson and the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph”, American Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2003 Dec): p. 569-601

Nalbach, A (2003), "Poisoned at the source"? Telegraphic news services and big business in the nineteenth century, BUS HIST REV 77 (4): 577-610

Potter, Simon J. (2003), “Communication and integration : the British and Dominions press and the British World, c.1876-1914”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 31:2, 190-206

Randall, Don. “Autumn 1857: The Making of the Indian 'Mutiny'”, Victorian Literature and Culture 31, no. 1 (2003): p. 3-17

Rosenhaft, E. “Hands and Minds: Clerical Work in the First ‘Information Society’, in International Review of Social History, 48 (2003) Supplement 11: 13-44

Stubbs, Katherine. “Telegraphy’s Corporeal Fictions,” pp91-112 in Gitelman, Lisa & Pingree, Geoffrey (2003), New Media 1740-1915, Cambridge MA, MIT Press

Wessel, HA. “A communication network. The German Reich's postal and telegraph administration, 1876-1914”, HIST Z 276 (1): 210-212 FEB 2003

Britton, JA and Ahvenainen, J. Showdown in South America: James Scrymser, John Pender, and United States-British cable competition, BUS HIST REV 78 (1): 1-27 SPR 2004

Blondheim, Menahem. “Rehearsal for Media Regulation: Congress Versus the Telegraph-News Monopoly, 1866-1900.” Federal Communications Law Journal, Mar2004, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p299-328, 30p

Arblaster, Paul. “Posts, Newsletters, Newspapers : England in a European system of communications.” Media History, 11:1/2 (2005), 21-36

Bell, D. S. A. “Dissolving Distance: Technology, Space and Empire in British Political Thought, 1770-1900.” Journal of Modern History, vol 77 no 3 September 2005

Davids, Mila. “The Privatisation and Liberalisation of Dutch Telecommunications in the 1980s”, Business History, Vol 47 No 2: 219-243 (April 2005)

Goodwin, John E. “The naval signal posts on the coast of southern England 1794-1815.” Mariner's Mirror, 91:1 (2005), 34-45

MacDougall, Robert (2005), “The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876-1926”, Enterprise and Society Vol 6 No 4: 581-587

Wallsten, S. “Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation: an empirical study of European telecommunications at the turn of the twentieth century.” Journal of Economic History vol 65 no 3 September 2005

Cookson, Gill. “Submarine Cables: Novelty and Innovation 1850-1870.” Transactions of the Newcomen Society vol 76 no 2 (2006): 207-220

Hoag, C. “The Atlantic Telegraph Cable and capital market information flows.” Journal of Economic History vol 66 no 2 June 2006

October 17, 2006