Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 178... - 9780367477011

Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 17801918Author(s): Karin Koehler, Nicola Kirkby, Kathleen McIlvenna, Eleanor Hopkins, Ellen Smith, Harriet M. Thompson\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367477011, 978-0367477011\nSynopsis\nThis four-volume collection contextualises primary sources related to nineteenth-century communications, including periodical articles, institutional and administrative records, material artefacts, and manuscript material such as correspondence, minutes, and memoirs. This resource contributes to knowledge in its own right as well as stimulates and facilitates future investigations, by students, academics, and other researchers, into the topic of the history of communications. The collections contributes to improving understandings of how nineteenth-century, especially Victorian, communication media, infrastructure, and technology have shaped the globalised, networked world in which we liv.