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Author Anduaga Egaña, Aitor, author

Title Wireless and empire : geopolitics, radio industry, and ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939 / Aitor Anduaga
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 386 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Government, radio research, and upper atmospheric sciences in Britain -- 2. Radio communications, geopolitics, education, and manufacturing in the British radio industry -- 3. From dominion to nation: atmospheric sciences and radio research in Australia -- 4. Radio communications, education, manufacturing, and innovation in the Australian radio industry -- 5. Organizing radio research in New Zealand -- 6. Government, university, research, and radio industry in Canada -- Postscript: Overstating reality -- Epilogue: The realist interpretation of the atmosphere
Summary 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 period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-378) and index
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SUBJECT Commonwealth gnd
Subject Ionospheric radio wave propagation -- Research -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Atmospheric physics -- Research -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Radio supplies industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Geopolitics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Radio.
British colonies
Geopolitics
Manners and customs
Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects
Radio supplies industry
Rundfunktechnik
Ionosphäre
Geopolitik
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056658
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191568053
0191568058
9780191721755
0191721751