Wireless and Empire

Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-956272-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 919 g

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'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anduaga, Aitor

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Government, radio research and upper atmospheric sciences in Britain

- 2: Telecommunications, geopolitics, education, and manufacturing in the British radio industry

- 3: From dominion to nation: upper atmospheric sciences and radio research in Australia

- 4: Telecommunications, 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: Over- stating reality

- Epilogue: The realist interpretation of the atmosphere

Über Autor(innen)

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.).