Powering American farms the overlooked origins of rural electrification
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 Con...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. "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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 358 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781421443621 978-1-4214-4362-1 |