01819nam a2200337 a 4500 EDZ0000073522 StDuBDS 20150804193925.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 091020s2009 enka fo 001 0 eng d 9780191721755 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS QC973.4.I6 384.540917124109041 22 Anduaga Ega�na, Aitor. Wireless and empire [electronic resource] : geopolitics, radio industry, and ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939 / Aitor Anduaga. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. 1 online resource (xxv, 386 p.) : ill. Although the product of consensus politics, the British Empire was based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Focusing on science, industry, government, the military, and education, this book studies the relationship between wireless and Empire throughout the interwar period. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Ionospheric radio wave propagation Research Government policy Great Britain History 20th century. Atmospheric physics Research Government policy Great Britain History 20th century. Radio supplies industry Great Britain History 20th century. Radio broadcasting Political aspects Great Britain History 20th century. Geopolitics Great Britain History 20th century. Great Britain Colonies Social life and customs. Print version 9780199562725 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562725.001.1 36939 36939