Title: Wireless and empire
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Atmospheric physics, Colonies, Geopolitcs, Government policy, History, Ionospheric radio wave propagation, Political aspects, Political aspects of Radio broadcasting, Radio broadcasting, Radio supplies industry, Research, Social life and customs, Wireless communication systems, Great britain, history, 20th century, Science and state, great britain, Geopolitics
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: QC973.4.I6 A526 2009