Far Eastern Telegraphs. The history of telegraphic communications between the Far East, Europe and America before the First World War

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Scholarly study which examines the early stages of telegraphic communication between Europe and America and China and Japan, and in particular the European share of this operation, in the years between 1870 and 1914 and the arrival wireless telegraphy. Not a history of the telegraph companies but rather the political and economic issues in relation to one another. Structured in four sections: 1] 'Development of the telegraphic connection between the Far East and Europe in the 1870s'; 2] 'Competition develops in the east'; 3] 'Governments, companies and communities in China, 1883-1902; 4] 'The Pacific cable and the Pacific combination'. Some limited coverage of Pacific Cable Board