272 pp. - softbound with cover - printed 2011
Italian text

WONDERS OF THE WORLD
International communication system in the XIX century
Postal History Notebooks n.32 - September 2011

The communication system evolution between 1820 and 1870 is the basis for the development of a global economy in the XIX and XX centuries.
There are three main important changes analysed from an economical and political point of view: transport of mail aboard steam ships, the opening of the Suez Channel, submarine telegraphy.