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oapen-20.500.12657-321142021-11-12T16:24:48Z Across the Oceans: Development of the overseas business information transmission Laakso, Seija-Riitta history ship traffic mail flow of information postal traffic communication Cunard Line Liverpool London New York (state) South America West Indies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLL Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTM Maritime history "In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considered crucial, distant places such as California or Australia had to wait for gold fever to become important enough for regular communications. The growth of passenger services, especially for emigrants, was a major factor increasing the number of mail sailings. The study covers the period from the Napoleonic wars to the foundation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and includes the development of overseas business information transmission from the days of sailing ships to steamers and the telegraph." 2016-09-26 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:58:36Z 2020-04-01T13:58:36Z 2007 book 617195 OCN: 1030821122 0355-8924;1458-526X 9789522228086;9789522228093 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32114 eng Studia Fennica Historica application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 617195.pdf https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.13 Finnish Literature Society / SKS 10.21435/sfh.13 10.21435/sfh.13 51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f f2ba3da1-e4a8-41c9-9a78-bf7b19984191 9789522228086;9789522228093 13 459 Helsinki Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation grant and SKS open access
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"In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considered crucial, distant places such as California or Australia had to wait for gold fever to become important enough for regular communications. The growth of passenger services, especially for emigrants, was a major factor increasing the number of mail sailings.
The study covers the period from the Napoleonic wars to the foundation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and includes the development of overseas business information transmission from the days of sailing ships to steamers and the telegraph."
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