Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

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Aitor Anduaga (Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History, Basque Country, Spain)

Wireless and Empire

Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

Aitor Anduaga (Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History, Basque Country, Spain)

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Oxford University Press
12 February 2009

Geopolitics; Radio & television industry; Philosophy of science; Impact of science & technology on society; History of science; Physics; Geophysics

Although the product of a self-proclaimed consensus politics, the British Empire was always based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Using the metaphor of a thread of five pieces representing the categories science, industry, government, the military, and the education, this is the first

book to study the relations between wireless and Empire throughout the interwar period. It is also the first to make full use of the abundant archive material and rich sources existing in Britain and the Dominions. The book examines the evolving connection between the development of imperial radio communications and atmospheric physics; the expansion and strength of the British radio industry and its relationship with the elucidation of the ionosphere; and the different extent to which Australia, Canada and New Zealand managed to emulate the British model of radio R&D in the interwar years. The book ends with a highly original and provocative epilogue: 'The realist interpretation of the atmosphere'.

By: Aitor Anduaga (Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History Basque Country Spain)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 247mm, Width: 175mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199562725
ISBN 10: 0199562725
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 12 February 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Current position: Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History. Biographical sketch: Research Fellow at the Universities of Oxford, Sydney, Montreal, Toronto, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.).

Reviews for Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

It is a classic of its kind and will, no doubt, keep students of the field busy for years to come. Physics World

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Wireless and Empire

Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

Aitor Anduaga (Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History, Basque Country, Spain)

$234

Hardback

Reviews for Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

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