Samuel J. Martland

About The Author

Samuel J. Martland is a professor of history and Latin American studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, and the author of Construir Valparaíso: Tecnología, municipalidad y Estado, 1820–1920.

Books by Samuel J. Martland

Messengers of the State

The Mail and the Telegraph in the Making of Modern Chile, 1818-1895

By Samuel J. Martland
Messengers of the State traces the development of Chile’s mail system and telegraph lines and shows how they expanded central state power and the national economy and helped create a new kind of civilian state worker.
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