Introduction: Deep Globalization and the Global Media in the Late Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth, 1
1 Building the Global Communication Infrastructure: Brakes and Accelerators on New Communication Technologies, 1850-70, 16
2 From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era: The Struggle for Control in the Euro-American and South American Communication Markets, 1870-1905, 43
3 Indo-European Communication Markets and the Scrambling of Africa: Communication and Empire in the ''Age of Disorder'', 92
4 Electronic Kingdom and Wired Cities in the ''Age of Disorder'': The Struggle for Control of China's National and Global Communication Capabilities, 1870-1901, 113
5 The Politics of Global Media Reform I, 1870-1905: The Early Movements against Private Cable Monopolies, 142
6 The Politics of Global Media Reform II, 1906-16: Rivalry and Managed Competition in the Age of Empire(s) and Social Reform, 177
7 Wireless, War, and Communication Networks, 1914-22; 228
8 Thick and Thin Globalism: Wilson, the Communication Experts, and the American Approach to Global Communication, 1918-22, 257
9 Communication and Informal Empires: Consortia and the Evolution of South American and Asian Communication Markets, 1918-30, 277
10 The Euro-American Communication Market and Media Merger Mania: New Technology and the Political Economy of Communication in the 1920s, 304
Conclusions: The Moving Forces of the Early Global Media, 338