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The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting and for radio history more generally It examines global and transnational histories of longdistance wireless broadcasting combining perspectives from international history media and cultural history the history of technology and sound studies It is a cowritten book the result of more than five years of collaboration Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries languages and archives the coauthors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion

Exploring the idea of a wireless world a globe connected both in imagination and reality by radio The Wireless World sheds new light on the transnational connections created by international broadcasting Bringing together all periods of international broadcasting within a single analytical frame the study reveals key continuities and transformations It looks at how wireless was shaped by internationalist ideas about the use of broadcasting to promote world peace and understanding at how empires used broadcasting to perpetuate colonialism and at how anticolonial movements harnessed radio as a weapon of decolonization