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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940

Claude S. Fischer
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures (page ix)
  • List of Tables (page xi)
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • CHAPTER 1 Technology and Modern Life (page 1)
  • CHAPTER 2 The Telephone in America (page 33)
  • CHAPTER 3 Educating the Public (page 60)
  • CHAPTER 4 The Telephone Spreads: National Patterns (page 86)
  • CHAPTER 5 The Telephone Spreads: Local Patterns (page 122)
  • CHAPTER 6 Becoming Commonplace (page 175)
  • CHAPTER 7 Local Attachment, 1890-1940 (page 193)
  • CHAPTER 8 Personal Calls, Personal Meanings (page 222)
  • CHAPTER 9 Conclusion (page 255)
  • APPENDIX A Bibliographic Essay (page 273)
  • APPENDIX B Statistical Analyses of Telephone and Automobile Distribution (page 277)
  • APPENDIX C Telephone Subscription among Iowa Farmers, 1924 (page 283)
  • APPENDIX D Summary of Expenditure Studies by Household Income or Occupation (page 287)
  • APPENDIX E The 1918-1919 Cost of Living Study (page 292)
  • APPENDIX F Who Had the Telephone When? (page 299)
  • APPENDIX G Analysis of Advertisement Data (page 309)
  • APPENDIX H Statistical Analyses for Chapter 7 (page 312)
  • Notes (page 312)
  • Bibliography (page 379)
  • Index (page 413)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AJS 99.6 (May 1994): 1693-1695 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28199405%2999%3A6%3C1693%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
AHR 99.1 (Feb. 1994): 310-311 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199402%2999%3A1%3C310%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
CS 23.1 (Jan. 1994): 128-130 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199401%2923%3A1%3C128%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
JAH 80.3 (Dec. 1993): 1128-1129 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199312%2980%3A3%3C1128%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
RAH 21.3 (Sep. 1993): 454-458 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28199309%2921%3A3%3C454%3AROATSH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
JEH 53.2 (Jun. 1993): 451-452 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199306%2953%3A2%3C451%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
SC 259.5095 (Jan. 1993): 699-701 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-8075%2819930129%293%3A259%3A5095%3C699%3AWTWY%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
ISIS 85.4 (Dec. 1994): 715-716 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199412%2985%3A4%3C715%3AACASHO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
JIH 25.2 (Autumn 1994): 348-350 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199423%2925%3A2%3C348%3AACASHO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
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Published: 1992
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520915008 (ebook)
  • 9780520079335 (hardcover)
  • 9780520086470 (paper)
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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