Georgetown University Press

📱 Mobile phones extend the capabilities of billions of people across the globe. In A Phone is a Cow, George Mason University professor Philip E. Auerswald profiles the market pioneers who were instrumental in bringing about the mobile revolution. Featuring a foreword by Nobel Laureate Bengt Holmström, this book is the first to tell the story of the unprecedented impact of a device that has transformed from luxury accessory to productivity necessity. Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, A Phone is a Cow shows that when market pioneers successfully carry a new economic combination into practice, the frontier of development advances.

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Catholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war's evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played a decisive role in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble fight for freedom, rather than a means to preserve slavery. Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause by Georgetown University professor emeritus Robert Emmett Curran sheds light on the surprising legacy of white American Catholics during and after the war years.

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