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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/3121953.pdf Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421443638 1421443635 |