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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The Standard Narrative and Its Defects -- Unattractive Economics in the Rural Electricity Market -- Business Attitudes toward Farmers in the 1920s -- The Lure and Lore of Rural Electrification -- Farmers on Their Own -- The Awakening of Power Company Interest in Rural Electrification -- Industry Concerns and the Unexpected Public Relations Value of Rural Electrification -- The Industry Organizes: Establishment of the CREA -- State Committees and Resolving Uncertainties -- Regulation and the Extension of Lines to Rural Areas -- Building Greater Momentum in the Rural Electrification Subsystem -- Government Innovations in the Rural Electrification Subsystem -- Competition and Private Utilities in the REA Era. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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