Wireless and empire geopolitics, radio industry, and ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

Although the product of consensus politics, the British Empire was based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Focusing on science, industry, government, the military, and education, this book studies the relationship between wireless and Empire throughout the interwar per...

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Main Author: Anduaga Egaäna, Aitor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009, 2009
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