Powering American Farms : The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification /

"Challenging traditional scholarship on the New Deal, the book reinterprets the history of rural electrification. It tells the previously unacknowledged story of how private power companies, with allies in land-grant universities, engendered social and technical innovations in the 1920s and ear...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hirsh, Richard F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rural electrification.
Farmers.
Electric utilities.
Agriculteurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Services publics d'electricite > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Électrification rurale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Farmers > United States > History > 20th century.
Electric utilities > United States > History > 20th century.
Rural electrification > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Challenging traditional scholarship on the New Deal, the book reinterprets the history of rural electrification. It tells the previously unacknowledged story of how private power companies, with allies in land-grant universities, engendered social and technical innovations in the 1920s and early 1930s that enabled growing numbers of farmers to obtain electrical service, well before the creation of Depression-era government programs"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (400 pages).
ISBN:9781421443638

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