"This wonderful telegraph" plants, cables, and the wiring of the Sulu Sea, 1898-1903
This article thinks with technology to show how gutta-percha plants (Palaquium spp.) and submarine cables were central not only to wiring the Sulu Sea at the turn of the twentieth century but also, and more broadly, to realizing a spatially connected, temporally synced Philippine colony in the age o...
| Published in: | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 71, no. 2 (Jun. 2023), 211-44 |
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| Language: | English |
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2023
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