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Telecom nation : telecommunications, computers, and governments in Canada / Laurence B. Mussio.

Title
Telecom nation : telecommunications, computers, and governments in Canada / Laurence B. Mussio.
Author
Mussio, Laurence B.
Publication
Montreal : Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

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Description
x, 307 p., [10] p. of pl. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
A study of how governments in Canada handled expansion in telecommunications and the arrival of the computer in the three critical decades after the Second World War.
Subject
  • Kanada Government
  • Kanada > Regierung
  • Telecommunication policy > Canada
  • Computer networks > Government policy > Canada
  • Télécommunications > Politique gouvernementale > Canada
  • Réseaux d'ordinateurs > Politique gouvernementale > Canada
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-298) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. From Golden Age to Iron Cage: Telecommunications Regulation and the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, 1945-1966 -- 2. Connecting Canada to the World: International Telecommunications Policy, 1942-1966 -- 3. Canadians and Computers: Initial Canadian Responses to the Computer, 1948-1968 -- 4. Revolution and Reaction: Telecommunications Policy, 1960-1969 -- 5. Collapse and Surrender: Telecommunications Regulation and the Canadian Transport Commission, 1967-1975 -- 6. The Politics of Technological Development: Canada, 1970-1975 -- 7. "Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?": Ottawa and the First Information Highway, 1969-1975.
ISBN
0773521755 :
OCLC
  • 44943622
  • SCSB-11617689
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library