Global electrification : multinational enterprise and international finance in the history of light and power, 1878-2007 /

Multinational enterprises played a crucial role in the spread of electric light and power from the 1870s. However, their role did not persist, and by 1978 multinational enterprises in this sector had all but disappeared, replaced by national electrical utility providers. Yet, in recent years, there...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hausman, William J.
Otros Autores: Hertner, Peter, Wilkins, Mira
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Colección:Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise.
Temas:
Electric utilities > History.
Electrification > Economic aspects > History.
Power resources > History.
Services publics d'électricité > Histoire.
Électrification > Aspect économique > Histoire.
Ressources énergétiques > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Electrical.
Electric utilities
Electrification > Economic aspects
Power resources
Elektrizitätswirtschaft
Energiepolitik
Multinationales Unternehmen
Elektrifizierung
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The invention and spread of electric utilities, with a measure of the extent of foreign ownership
  • Multinational enterprise and international finance
  • Every city, 1880-1914
  • War, the first nationalization, restructuring, and renewal, 1914-1929
  • Basic infrastructure, 1929-1945
  • Summary of the domestication pattern to 1978
  • coming full circle, 1978-2007, and a global perspective.

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