This unusual history focuses not only on those who advanced transatlantic cable
communication, but also on those who harbored alternative ideas. They might seem …

The study of transregional connections is central to the field of global history. This article
reflects on the idea of connections from a conceptual viewpoint and treats them as …

This article uses the example of submarine telegraphy to trace the interdependence
between global communications and modern capitalism. It uncovers how cable …

How we assess globalization is largely determined by how we see the world economy. This
article follows a disagreement about how to see the world economy among economists in …

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar, por medio de un vasto conjunto de periódicos de
Buenos Aires, el papel desempeñado por las agencias de noticias europeas y las …

A new history of globalization and empire at the crossroads of the Pacific. Located halfway
between Hawai 'i and Australia, the islands of Samoa have long been a center of Oceanian …

On April 16, 1879 Emma Pender, wife of cable magnate and head of the Eastern and
Associated Companies, John Pender, was having tea with her lady friends at her London …

Edward Snowden's revelations laid bare an unprecedented scale of state influence on
communications technology. But government elites have frequently shaped technological …

This article compares two media multinationals that supplied different genres of news,
political and economic. Most media companies provided both genres, and these categories …

In 1835 Charles Havas founded the first modern news agency in Paris. Born in 1783 in
Rouen, Havas could already look back on a tumultuous career when he first decided in …