America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940

Claude S. Fischer

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Frontmatter
List of Figures (page ix)
List of Tables (page xi)
Preface (page xiii)
CHAPTER 1 Technology and Modern Life (page 1)
CHAPTER 2 The Telephone in America (page 33)
CHAPTER 3 Educating the Public (page 60)
CHAPTER 4 The Telephone Spreads: National Patterns (page 86)
CHAPTER 5 The Telephone Spreads: Local Patterns (page 122)
CHAPTER 6 Becoming Commonplace (page 175)
CHAPTER 7 Local Attachment, 1890-1940 (page 193)
CHAPTER 8 Personal Calls, Personal Meanings (page 222)
CHAPTER 9 Conclusion (page 255)
APPENDIX A Bibliographic Essay (page 273)
APPENDIX B Statistical Analyses of Telephone and Automobile Distribution (page 277)
APPENDIX C Telephone Subscription among Iowa Farmers, 1924 (page 283)
APPENDIX D Summary of Expenditure Studies by Household Income or Occupation (page 287)
APPENDIX E The 1918-1919 Cost of Living Study (page 292)
APPENDIX F Who Had the Telephone When? (page 299)
APPENDIX G Analysis of Advertisement Data (page 309)
APPENDIX H Statistical Analyses for Chapter 7 (page 312)
Notes (page 312)
Bibliography (page 379)
Index (page 413)

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Published: 1992

Publisher: University of California Press

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