David Hochfelder: 2 books
by David Hochfelder
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph...
The Cultural History of Money and Credit
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008, historians have turned with renewed urgency to understanding the economic dimension of historical change. In this collection, nine scholars present original research into the historical development of money and credit during the nineteenth and twentieth...