Dr. Sophie FitzMaurice, "From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th Century U.S"

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Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast

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Where big ideas in history meet open conversation. Each episode invites listeners into the Seminar experience, where, every Monday afternoon during term, visiting scholars and graduate students exchange ideas about new lines of historical inquiry shaping the future of the field. We talk about presenters' current research and paper, their broader academic interests and the significance of their research in the current moment. If you have any feedback, suggestions or questions, please contact our producer via email at ds2125@cantab.ac.uk. Thanks for listening!

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Dr. Sophie FitzMaurice, "From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th Century U.S"

Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast

28 minutes 13 seconds

7 months ago

Dr. Sophie FitzMaurice, "From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th Century U.S"

This week on the podcast, PhD candidates Hugh Wood and Megan Renoir sit down with Sophie FitzMaurice, Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. Sophie discusses her paper, "From Perishable Property to Industrial Preservation: Remaking the Telegraph Pole in the Early 20th-Century U.S."—an exploration of the environmental and material history of a technology that, for the first time, allowed information to outpace human movement.

Co-hosted by Hugh Wood and Megan Renoir

Edited and produced by Daisy Semmler