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Acquisitions: The Politics and Technology of the Telephone Service in Colonial Trinidad, 1903-1955, Book 2

Acquisitions: The Politics and Technology of the Telephone Service in Colonial Trinidad, 1903-1955, Book 2

Escalante, Richard M.

Paperback

Caribbean HistoryTechnology & EngineeringGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9769706787
ISBN13: 9789769706781
Publisher: Kairi Publishing House
Published: May 3 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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