TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fischer,Claude S.
TI  - America calling: a social history of the telephone to 1940 
SN  - 9780520915008
AV  - HE8817 .F56 1992eb
U1  - 302.23/5/0973 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Telephone
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - cct
KW  - fast
KW  - T�el�ephone
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - �Etats-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Telefonie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sociale aspecten
KW  - Sozialgeschichte
KW  - gnd
KW  - Telefon
KW  - Comunicacao de massa
KW  - larpcal
KW  - Telefonia
KW  - ram
KW  - T�el�ecommunications
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology--how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three California communities, Fischer uncovers how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century. Women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then later wholeheartedly promoted. Again and again Fischer finds that the telephone supported a wide-ranging network of social relations and played a crucial role in community life, especially for women, from organizing children's relationships and church activities to alleviating the loneliness and boredom of rural life. Deftly written and meticulously researched, America Calling adds an important new chapter to the social history of our nation and illuminates a fundamental aspect of cultural modernism that is integral to contemporary life. --Publisher
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