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Outline

  1. Basic concepts

    1.1 "Remote" and "telecommunication" – a terminological delimitation

    1.2 The term "telecommunication"

    1.3 The term "remote communication"

  2. The historical significance of remote communication from a world-historical perspective

    2.1 New trends in the science of history

    2.2 Remote and telecommunication as key elements of history

    2.3 Continuity and (functional) change: Riepl’s Law

  3. Goals of the historical overview

  4. Historical beginnings of remote communication

    4.1 "Close" and "remote"

    4.2 Language and voice

    4.3 Fire and remote communication

  5. From the “Neolithic Revolution” to the propagation of the letterpress

    5.1 The "Neolithic Revolution" as caesura

    5.2 Literacy and remote communication

    5.3 Men and animals carrying messages

    5.4 Early post and courier systems: the example of pigeon post

    5.5 Remote communication and the emergence of the first world empires

    5.6 Pre-modern remote communication and the spread of world religions

    5.7 Migration, expansion and remote communication (300-1500)

    5.8 Polycentric developments

    5.9 New developments after 1500

    5.10 Summary: remote communication before the Industrial Revolution

  6. Remote and telecommunication in Modern Times

    6.1 The 19th century - A world historical caesura in the history of remote communication

    6.2 Global changes

    6.2.1 Demographic cataclysms
    6.2.2 Industrialisation
    6.2.3 Electricity
    6.2.4 European dominance
    6.2.5 Colonial imperialism, national states and international political movements

    6.3 New modes of communication

    6.3.1 The optical telegraph
    6.3.2 Electric telegraphy
    6.3.3 Submarine telegraph cables
    6.3.4 Wireless telegraphy
    6.3.5 Telephone and microphone
    6.3.6 Technological developments after 1945

    6.4 Effects (selected aspects)

    6.4.1 War and humanitarian aid
    6.4.2 Telecommunication at centres of finance and the stock exchange
    6.4.3 Press and communications
    6.4.4 Crime and the fight against it

    6.5 Summary: features of modern remote and telecommunication