'Circuits of Victory': how the First World War shaped the political economy of the telephone in the United States and France "Les circuits de la victoire": comment la Première Guerre mondiale a transformé l'économie politique du téléphone aux Etats-Unis et en France
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2019
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- hal: hal-02469144
- doi: 10.1080/07341512.2019.1652960
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Telecommunications First World War Bell System US Signal Corps standardsetting Transnational approachSujets proches
Hostilities Conflict, Armed (War) Wars Armed conflict (War) Fighting Telephone service Telephones Economically advanced nations Industrialized countries Industrial societies Industrialized nations Economically advanced countries First World Advanced countries Developed nations Advanced nations Industrial nations Industrial countriesCiter ce document
Richard R. John et al., « "Les circuits de la victoire": comment la Première Guerre mondiale a transformé l'économie politique du téléphone aux Etats-Unis et en France », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.1080/07341512.2019.1652960
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This essay contends that the US Signal Corps’ wartime network had major consequences for the postwar development of the politicaleconomy of the telephone in the United States, France, and Europe Our approach is transnational. In contrast to previous scholarship,which is mostly top-down, nation-centric, and preoccupied with the internal configuration of telephone networks that are typically studiedinside the walls of discrete national containers, we widen the lens to explore a broad array of influences on network evolution,including those that originated from within individual operating companies and beyond national borders. Among the themes thatwe explore is transnational standard-setting. And among the agent of change that we emphasize is the influence of military conflict onpersonal networks, technical protocols, and international organizations From such a vantage point, the First World War emerges as aconstitutive moment in the making of the information infrastructure in the modern world.
