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How did the telegraph, a new and revolutionary form of communication, affect diplomats, who tended to resist change? In a study based on impressive multinational research, David Paull Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Case studies in crisis diplomacy--the War of 1812, the Trent affair during the U.S. Civil War, and the famous 1917 Zimmermann telegram--introduce wide-ranging thematic discussions on the autonomy of diplomats; the effects of increased speed on decision making and public opinion; the neglected role of clerks in diplomacy; and the issues of expense, garbled text, espionage, and technophobia that initially made foreign ministries wary of telegraphy. Ultimately, the introduction of the telegraph contributed to the centralization of foreign ministries and the rising importance of signals intelligence. The faster pace of diplomatic disputes invited more emotional decisions by statesmen, while public opinion often exercised a belligerent influence on crises developing over a shorter time period. Under the Wire offers a fascinating new perspective on the culture of diplomacy and the social history of technology. Table of Contents: Introduction I. Control 1. The Anglo-American Crisis of 1812 2. Diplomatic Autonomy and Telecommunications II. Speed 3. The Trent Affair 4. Speed and Diplomacy 5. Diplomatic Time III. The Medium 6. The Zimmermann Telegram 7. Technical and Economic Factors Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index Reviews of this book: David Paull Nickles has plumbed the archives of four countries to determine just how transformative [the invention of the telegraph] really was. Under the Wire is a subtle and impressive examination of history.--Christian D. Brose, Wall Street JournalIn this study of the impact of telegraphy on the management of international relations, the reader is rewarded time and again by finding original observations regarding familiar events. This is a book that can have a shaping effect not only on the field of international relations but on many others, since it compels one to think hard about how changes in technology affect behavior and thought among groups with deeply rooted traditions and beliefs.--Ernest R. May, Harvard University

World history --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Transportation Economics --- Business & Economics --- Telegraph --- Diplomacy --- Diplomats --- Negotiation --- History. --- Bargaining --- Dickering --- Haggling --- Higgling --- Negotiating --- Negotiations --- Discussion --- Psychology, Applied --- Statesmen --- History

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History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1910-1919 --- Inflation (Finance) --- History --- DE / Germany - Duitsland - Allemagne --- 331.156 --- 333.841 --- -332.410943 --- Finance --- Natural rate of unemployment --- Geldwezen van 1914 tot 1945. --- Inflatie. --- Inflation --- Histoire --- Geldwezen van 1914 tot 1945 --- Inflatie --- E-books --- History. --- Inflation (Finance) - Germany - History --- -History

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"Thorough, well-researched history of UNAM from its contemporary founding to 1920. Explores the relationship of the university to the Mexican government and demonstrates the extent to which UNAM mirrored the major conflicts that were part of Mexico's revolutionary history"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

History of education and educational sciences --- anno 1910-1919 --- Mexico --- Revolucion mexicana. --- Enseñanza universitaria (Mexico) --- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. --- Universidad Nacional de México --- History --- Mexico. --- Mexico City (Mexico). --- National University of Mexico --- Universidad de México --- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México --- Higher & further education, tertiary education

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"To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment"-- "In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolutionand jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous.

To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Workerexamines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women's movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married and unmarried. Office workers also developed a critique of gender inequality and sexual exploitation both within and outside the workplace. From Angel to Office Workeris a major contribution to modern Mexican history as historians begin to ask new questions about the relationships between labor, politics, and the cultural and public spheres."--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico. --- Middle class women --- Women clerks --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Clerks --- History --- Employment --- E-books --- History of Mexico --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949

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Essays on a neglected period, focusing on the face and fate of popular cinema.

Film --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1909 --- Germany --- Motion pictures --- #SBIB:309H1313 --- #SBIB:309H1320 --- #SBIB:AANKOOP --- History --- Geschiedenis en/of organisatie van het filmwezen: algemeen en per land (met inbegrip van de rol van het filmwezen in de ontwikkelingsproblematiek) --- De filmische boodschap: algemene werken (met inbegrip van algemeen filmhistorische werken en filmhistorische werken per land) --- History. --- Motion pictures -- Databases. --- Motion pictures --Germany --History. --- Motion pictures. --- Silent films. --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Cinéma --- Industrie cinématographique --- Allemagne --- 1895-1929