Powering American farms the overlooked origins of rural electrification

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hirsh, Richard F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Rural electrification > United States > History > 20th century.
Electric utilities > United States > History > 20th century.
Farmers > United States > History > 20th century.
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Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/3121953.pdf
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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