The changing bias of inter-urban communications in nineteenth-century Canada

Goheen, Peter G.

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“…On a larger scale, the same questions are relevant to American regional economic development in the nineteenth century (Earle 1987). Goheen's (1990a) study of the impact of the telegraph on the content of Canadian newspapers shows not only the emergence of a national information system, in which control over the dissemination of news was increasingly centralized, and in which Canada's links with the United States were reinforced by a dependence on American news services, but also how the content of communication was influenced by technology: the telegraph was better suited to transmitting some kinds of information than others-prices, dates, and quantities, not ideas and opinions.…”

Section: Recent Historical Geography Of Industrial and Urban Societymentioning

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“…Streets acquired new symbolic meanings, and the ability to take control of a particular locality, however fleetingly, imbued a class or a social movement with new status and authority. Similarly, Marston (1989) has examined St. Patrick's Day parades in Lowell, while Goheen (1990b) has compared the routes, ordering, and composition of a Montreal funeral procession and a Hamilton labor parade. Of course, buildings, street patterns, and landscapes may be made with meaning, or they may have meaning thrust upon them: consider Harvey's (1979Harvey's ( , 1985b interpretations of the building of Sacre Coeur on Montmartre, and of Haussmann's reconstruction of central Paris, Woolf's (1988) discussion of the Paris Opera, Domosh's (1987) analysis of the symbolism of American skyscrapers, or Duncan's (1990) reading of the landscape of precolonial Kandy.…”

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History, Geography, and Historical Geography

Dennis¹

1991

Social Science History

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In 1986, 585 out of 5,686 members of the Association of American Geographers declared their allegiance to the Historical Geography Specialty Group; among 50 AAG specialty groups, the historical geographers ranked 7th. Yet one prominent human geographer regards historical geography as “overdetermined,” an “empty concept” conveying “few (if any) significant analytical distinctions” (Dear 1988: 270). Dear’s argument is that, by definition, all geography should be historical, since “the central object in human geography is to understand the simultaneity of time and space in structuring social process.” So the only subdisciplines of human geography which have any intellectual coherence are those focused on distinct processes—political, economic, social. To me, even this distinction is unrealistic and impracticable for research purposes. But Dear does not go so far as to argue that historical geography or other “overdetermined,” “multidimensional,” or “peripheral” subdisciplines are wrong, merely that they are incidental to geography’s “intellectual identity.”

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Section: Recent Historical Geography Of Industrial and Urban Societymentioning

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Section: Recent Historical Geography Of Industrial and Urban Societymentioning

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History, Geography, and Historical Geography

Dennis¹

1991

Social Science History

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Telecommunications and Cities: International Perspectives

Langdale¹

1991

Urban Policy and Research

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Communications and Newsmaking Before the Telegraph: The Story of the 1845 Quebec City Fires

Goheen

1993

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The press made the two huge fires which destroyed two‐thirds of Quebec City in 1845 into one of the most important stories of the year. By studying how knowledge of it diffused, how editors in various places presented and interpreted it, and what interest they showed in the way the story was handled elsewhere, we can examine the process of news making in the days before the telegraph was in general use. The process of communications among editors was sophisticated and utilized a wide variety of methods. Innovations designed to speed the delivery of important information and to standardize its form were widely adopted, anticipating the telegraphic wire service. News was created in a fashion that is comparable with modern concepts of editorial management. By focussing on communications and their role in news making, rather than on the technology of dissemination, important parallels between practice in 1845 and modern understanding of news become apparent. ľon;attention portée par la presse aux deux incendies qui ravageèrent la ville de Québec en 1845 fut telle que ces evénements devinrent une des plus grandes affaires de ľon; année. á partir d'une étude qui sepenche sur la question des moyens de diffusion des informations sur ľon;affaire; c'est‐à‐dire, comment les rédacteurs de différentes régions ľon; ont interprétée et ľ ont présentee au public, ainsi que ľon; intérêt qu'ils ont portéà la façon dont ľon; affaire a été traitée ailleurs, il est possible ?on; examiner les processus de la présentation des informations lors ?on; une période ole télégraphe n‘était pas encore en usage courant. Le processus de communications entre éditeurs était déjà sophistiqué et celui‐ci employait une variété de differentes méthodes de communications. Une searie ?on; innovations avait été conçue non seulement pour accélérer la livraison ? informations importantes mais également, afin de standardiser la forme de celles‐ci. Ces innovations anticipaient alors le service télégraphique. La faĉon dont les informations ont été“interprétées et présentées par la presse a ľon; epoque est comparable aux concepts modernes de la gestion des nouvelles. Une étude qui vise d'abord la communication et son rôle dans la création des nouvelles, et moins la téchnologie de la dissémination, permet de mieux soulever les parallèles importantes qui existent entre la pratique en 1845 et la compréhension contempo‐raine des informations.

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The changing bias of inter-urban communications in nineteenth-century Canada

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

History, Geography, and Historical Geography

History, Geography, and Historical Geography

Telecommunications and Cities: International Perspectives

Communications and Newsmaking Before the Telegraph: The Story of the 1845 Quebec City Fires

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