Communication and empire : media markets and globalization 1860 1930 Introduction : deep globalization and the global media in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth Building the global communication infrastructure : brakes and accelerators on new communication technologies 1850 70 From the Guilded Age to the Progressive Era : the struggle for control in the Euro American and South American communication markets 1870 1905 Indo European communication markets and the scrambling of Africa : communication and empire in the Age of Disorder Electronic kingdom and wired cities in the Age of Disorder : the struggle for control of Chinas national and global communication capabilities 1870 1901 The politics of global media reform I 1870 1905 : the early movements against private cable monopolies The politics of global media reform II 1906 16 : rivalry and managed competition in the age of empire(s) and social reform Wireless war and communication networks 1914 22 Thick and thin globalism : Wilson the communication experts and the American approach to global communications 1918 22 Communication and informal empires : consortia and the evolution of South American and Asian communication markets 1918 30 The Euro American communication market and media merger mania : new technology and the political economy of communication in the 1920s Conclusions : the moving forces of early global media