Wireless and empire
Subtitle: geopolitics, radio industry, and ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939
By: Aitor Anduaga.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199562725
Subjects: Ionospheric radio wave propagation -- Research -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Atmospheric physics -- Research -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Radio supplies industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Geopolitcs -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs
Description: "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'."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.