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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Commonwealth gnd |
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Ionospheric radio wave propagation -- Research -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Atmospheric physics -- Research -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Radio supplies industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Geopolitics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Radio.
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British colonies
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Geopolitics
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Manners and customs
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Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects
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Radio supplies industry
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Rundfunktechnik
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Ionosphäre
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Geopolitik
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056658
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Subject |
Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191568053 |
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0191568058 |
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9780191721755 |
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0191721751 |
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