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The Invisible Weapon

The Invisible Weapon

Daniel R. Headrick

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Oxford University Press
Año de edición:
1991
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Historia
ISBN:
9780195062731

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Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945.Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II, and illustrates how this technology gave nations a new instrument for international relations.

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