123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Crossing Borders: Technology and Globalization in Historical Perspective

Crossing Borders: Technology and Globalization in Historical Perspective

AHA Session 202

Monday, January 5, 2009: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

Gramercy Suite B (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Janet Abbate, Virginia Tech

Topics:

Creating a Global Communication Satellite System: Local Versus Global Tensions
Hugh Richard Slotten, University of Otago

Globalizing American News: Information, Identity, and International Conflict in China, 1937–41
Michael A. Krysko, Kansas State University

Can (Should) States Control Technologies? The Anglo-American Telecommunications Struggle, 1910–34
Peter J. Hugill, Texas A&M University

Industrial Communication Technologies, Colonial Expansionism, and the Burst of Globalization in the Decades before WWI
Michael P. Adas, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

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