The European Making of National Public Services—Posts and Telegraphs

Yaman Kouli () and Léonard Laborie ()
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Yaman Kouli: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Léonard Laborie: French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR Sirice

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Politics and Policies of European Economic Integration, 1850–1914, 2022, pp 31-71 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The administrators of public postal and telegraphic networks in Europe and North America inaugurated the era of governed globalisation. The international organisations they set up steered the connection of networks and the intensification of cross-border flows, fuelling and being fuelled by transnational economic, social and cultural relations. Two factors framed these developments: the birth of public communication services that participated in the integration of communities within state territories and, later, within imperial territories and the liberalisation of international exchanges. In this configuration, Europe knew a form of hidden integration and became a technological zone characterised by a singular regulation of communication services. It was indeed the considerably facilitated intra-European exchanges that litteraly funded the expansion of national and imperial networks.

Keywords: Infrastructures; Communication; National identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-00296-0_3

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