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020			_a9780511998041 (ebook)
020			_z9781107012288 (hardback)
020			_z9781107480902 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aHE7797.W53 _bW65 2013
082	0	0	_a384.10973/09034 _223
100	1		_aWolff, Joshua D., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWestern Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845–1893 / _cJoshua D. Wolff.
246	3		_aWestern Union & the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845–1893
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (318 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles that raged over Western Union's monopoly on nineteenth-century American telecommunications - in Congress, in courts, and in the press - illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of American political economy. The telegraph debate reveals that what we understand as the normative relationship between private capital and public interest is the product of a historical process that was neither inevitable nor uncontested. Western Union's monopoly was not the result of market logic or a managerial revolution, but the conscious creation of entrepreneurs protecting their investments. In the process, these entrepreneurs elevated economic liberalism above traditional republican principles of public interest and helped create a new corporate order.
650		0	_aWestern Union Telegraph Company
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107012288
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511998041
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37331 _d37331