TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laakso, Seija-Riitta
AB  - "In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considered crucial, distant places such as California or Australia had to wait for gold fever to become important enough for regular communications. The growth of passenger services, especially for emigrants, was a major factor increasing the number of mail sailings.   The study covers the period from the Napoleonic wars to the foundation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and includes the development of overseas business information transmission from the days of sailing ships to steamers and the telegraph."
DO  - 10.21435/sfh.13
ID  - OAPEN ID: 617195
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030821122
KW  - history
KW  - ship traffic
KW  - mail
KW  - flow of information
KW  - postal traffic
KW  - communication
KW  - Cunard Line
KW  - Liverpool
KW  - London
KW  - New York (state)
KW  - South America
KW  - West Indies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/081602fb-32d0-489c-9907-12546112fa6c/617195.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32114
PB  - Finnish Literature Society / SKS
PP  - Helsinki
PY  - 2007
SN  - 9789522228086;9789522228093
TI  - Across the Oceans: Development of the overseas business information transmissionnull
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