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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- General Editor's Preface -- 1 The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830-1910 -- Part 1 Production Network Geographies -- 2 The Licensing Regime: Arrangements for Producing Harvesting Machinery, 1830-1890 -- 3 Dispersed Production Networks: Technical Constraints, Seasonality, and Subcontracting, 1830-1880 -- 4 Breaking Through to Mass Production: Spatial and Corporate Concentration, 1880-1910 -- Part 2 Competition and Collaboration -- 5 A Transnational Machine on the World Stage: Representing McCormick's Reaper Through World's Fairs, 1851-1902 -- 6 Building Trust and Managing Business Over Distance: A Geography of Reaper Manufacturer D.S. Morgan's Correspondence, 1867 -- 7 The Harvest Scene: The American Reaper Networks and Globalization -- Bibliography -- Index.

In the fifty years before 1914, London was served by Reuters, the world's leading news agency. Reuters both led and reflected London's expanding interests in world affairs, so analysis of its news supply offers insights into London's situation as a late nineteenth-century world city. Saskia Sassen has defined global cities as forming a network with transnational producer services firms contracting with transnational corporations to supply the services that are necessary for their global businesses. This article asks whether Reuters offered worldwide coverage, operated as an imperial network, or functioned as a transnational producer services enterprise networking world cities. It does so by mapping the world news Reuters delivered to London newspapers using the telegraphic records of the Reuters Group Archive for sample news weeks in 1865, 1881, and 1914. Analysis reveals that Reuters was a nineteenth-century producer services firm offering transnational services organized by a web of enterprise and focused on a network of world cities. This suggests in turn that London may have been a global city before 1914.

'This paper analyzes La Nación's reporting of the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand in the week following the event. Analysis identifies the narrative components to these assassination stories, including geographical imaginaries and the places and networks of news production. Particular attention is paid to the mediatized ritual of mourning and succession that takes place in the capital cities with which La Nación's Buenos Aires readers are networked. Analysis is facilitated by some comparison with the coverage of the same event in The Los Angeles Times and The New Zealand Herald (Auckland). La Nación shared copy and sources with these and other newspapers, and printed similar stories about the assassination, but it cultivated its own local readership and its own ideas of citizenship in the wider world. Each editor imprinted his readers as moral citizens of the world, authorizing them to participate in the events as mourners, activists and compassionate observers, but also preconditioning the ways they can imagine assassination and the interactions of the diplomatic world. Analysis reveals expected roles in international affairs for citizens of world cities, which are conveyed as moral lessons and tales, wrapped in imagined communities stretching across the globe, but actualized locally.' (author's abstract)