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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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