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Freedom of Communication: Visions and Realities of Postwar Telecommunication Orders in the 1940s

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Frank Beyersdorf
Frank Beyersdorf*
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University of Mannheim
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 27 , Special Issue 3: The Governance of International Communications: Business, Politics, and Standard-Setting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries , July 2015 , pp. 492 - 520
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I am indebted to the invaluable help provided by the editors of this special issue as well as Gabriel Cooper, Carsten Gräbel, and Florian Pressler in preparing this article.

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