{"product_id":"the-wireless-world-simon-j-potter-9780192864987","title":"The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Wireless World\u003c\/em\u003e sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a co-written book, the result of more than five years of collaboration. Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries, languages, and archives, the co-authors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion. They also demonstrate that by paying more attention to audiences, programmes, and soundscapes, historians of international broadcasting can make important contributions to wider debates in social and cultural history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring the idea of a 'wireless world', a globe connected, both in imagination and reality, by radio, \u003cem\u003eThe Wireless World\u003c\/em\u003e sheds new light on the transnational connections created by international broadcasting. Bringing together all periods of international broadcasting within a single analytical frame, including the pioneering days of wireless, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the study reveals key continuities and transformations. It looks at how wireless was shaped by internationalist ideas about the use of broadcasting to promote world peace and understanding, at how empires used broadcasting to perpetuate colonialism, and at how anti-colonial movements harnessed radio as a weapon of decolonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019286498X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192864987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.50d","brand":"Simon J. Potter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069582012671,"sku":"9780192864987","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7da69d45-64e6-4115-9054-3940502666f5.jpg?v=1685425454","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wireless-world-simon-j-potter-9780192864987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}