Title America calling : a social history of the telephone to 1940 / Claude S. Fischer.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992]
	©1992

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HE8817 .F56 1992	Available	---

Description	xv, 424 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-412) and index.
Contents	Technology and modern life -- Telephone in America -- Educating the public -- Telephone spreads : national patterns -- Telephone spreads : local patterns -- Becoming commonplace -- Local attachment, 1890-1940 -- Personal calls, personal meanings.
Subject	Telephone -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
	Telephone -- Social aspects.
	United States.
	History.
Indexed Term	Telephones History
	United States
Subject	Comunicacao de massa.
	Telefonia.
	Telefonie.
	Sociale aspecten.
	7.150.
	Téléphone -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
	Teléfono -- Aspectos sociales -- Estados Univods -- Historia.
ISBN	0520079337 alkaline paper
	9780520079335 alkaline paper
	0520086473 paperback
	9780520086470 paperback