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Acquisitions
The Politics and Technology of the Telephone Service in Colonial Trinidad, 1903-1955, Book 2
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If the first telephone system in Trinidad began as an experiment, what followed was a struggle for control.
In the early twentieth century, the telephone was no longer a novelty-it was a necessity. But who would own it? Who would manage it? And who would profit from it?
From German enterprise to Canadian expansion and British consolidation, Acquisitions traces the successive takeovers that shaped the development of the telephone service in colonial Trinidad. Each transition brought new technologies, new policies, and new tensions between private interests and the colonial state.
This is more than a story of infrastructure.
It is a story of power-of negotiations behind closed doors, of governments seeking control, and of foreign companies extending their reach into a vital communication system.
Spanning two World Wars and decades of technological change, this book reveals how the telephone became entangled in the wider forces of empire, business, and modernity.
Because in the age of communication, control of the network meant control of the system.
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