eprintid: 19677
rev_number: 50
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type: article
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creators_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
title: The Dematerialization of Telecommunication: Communication Centres and Peripheries in Europe, 1850-1920
subjects: ddc-900
divisions: i-72020
cterms_swd: Telekommunikation
cterms_swd: Kommunikation
cterms_swd: Europa
cterms_swd: Geschichte
abstract: Interregional communication has been a key constituent of the process of globalization since its very origins. For most of its history, information has moved between world regions and along the routes according to the rationales established by interregional trade and migration. The dematerialization of telecommunication in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century eventually detached long-distance information transmission from transport and transformed the global communication structure. New communication centres (and new peripheries) emerged. Some regions moved closer to the global data stream than others. It is still unclear how such different degrees of global connectivity impacted on local development. This essay
contributes to the identification and valuation of global communication centres and peripheries in order to provide suitable candidates for future case studies. To this end, statistical data on the development of domestic telegraph networks in selected countries has been analysed and interpreted. In a second step, Social Network Analysis methods have been employed to measure the centrality of almost three hundred cities and towns in the European telecommunication network of the early twentieth century.
date: 2007
publisher: London School of Economics and Political Science
id_scheme: DOI
ppn_swb: 1658801598
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196778
language: eng
bibsort: WENZLHUEMETHEDEMATER2007
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Global History
volume: 2
place_of_pub: London
pagerange: 345-372
citation:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2007) The Dematerialization of Telecommunication: Communication Centres and Peripheries in Europe, 1850-1920.  Journal of Global History, 2.  pp. 345-372.      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19677/1/Wenzlhuemer_The_dematerialization_of_telecommunication_2007.pdf